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TAVIS SMILEY is the host of Tavis Smiley on PBS and The Tavis Smiley Show from PRI (Public Radio International). He is the author of the bestsellers Hard Left, Doing What’s Right, How to Make Black America Better, and Keeping the Faith. This spring, his efforts to promote the publication of The Covenant with Black America helped to make it a number-one New York Times bestseller. He lives in Los Angeles.
DAVID RITZ has written biographies of, among others, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, and B. B. King. His latest book, Messengers: Portraits of African American Ministers, is being published by Doubleday in 2006.
To see photographs from Tavis’s life, as told in What I Know for Sure, and to learn about Tavis’s events and the Tavis Smiley Foundation’s activities, please visit www.tavistalks.com.
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction | p. xi |
Gulport to Gotham | p. 1 |
Gotham to Gulfport | p. 5 |
Gulfport to Bunker Hill | p. 17 |
The Trailer and the Church | p. 21 |
Men Were Walking on the Moon | p. 27 |
The Bully and the Lesson | p. 37 |
The Revelation | p. 47 |
In My Father's House | p. 57 |
Shame on the Smileys! | p. 61 |
The Boxcar Children | p. 69 |
A Rage That Reaches to Heaven | p. 75 |
Despising the Shame | p. 79 |
Turn the Fear to Energy | p. 85 |
America Has Defaulted | p. 91 |
High School Hierarchy | p. 97 |
Hustle and Flow | p. 103 |
Dangerous Unselfishness | p. 111 |
Conflict of Sufferings | p. 119 |
The Paradox Paradigm | p. 125 |
IU | p. 131 |
Brave New World | p. 139 |
RIP Denver Smith | p. 149 |
Madam Mayor | p. 157 |
End of the Road | p. 163 |
Urban Angels | p. 167 |
Hustle and Flow Revisited | p. 175 |
Urban Angels Revisited | p. 181 |
Lame-Duck Hoosier | p. 193 |
Chillin' in the Deep Freeze | p. 201 |
End of the Eighties | p. 205 |
I Lost | p. 209 |
Just a Thought | p. 213 |
A Good Bet | p. 219 |
The Press and the President | p. 223 |
Castro | p. 229 |
Big Mama | p. 233 |
Spring Thaw | p. 237 |
Final Bet | p. 241 |
The Beginning | p. 247 |
Forces of Light | p. 251 |
Index | p. 256 |
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