Tavis Smiley

Tavis Smiley is currently the host of the late-night television talk show Tavis Smiley on PBS, as well as The Tavis Smiley Show from Public Radio International (PRI). He is also the founder of the nonprofit Tavis Smiley Foundation, which has undertaken a $3-million, four-year campaign called "ENDING POVERTY: America’s Silent Spaces" in order to alleviate endemic poverty in America. TIME magazine named Smiley to its list of "The World’s 100 Most Influential People," and he has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.