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Tavis Smiley and Cornel West: The Poverty Tour – A Call to Conscience
January 20, 2012
American families have been falling out of the middle class in record numbers and many folks are homeless and hungry for the first time in their lives. And that means more children are growing up in poverty than at any other time since the Great Depression.
What can be done, and how far does the government’s responsibility go? What is the individual citizen’s responsibility in an age of economic collapse and political upheaval? Those are some of the questions that famed TV and radio host Tavis Smiley along with provocative democratic intellectual and best-selling author Cornel West have grappled with in their joint project, “The Poverty Tour: A Call to Conscience.”
Smiley & West are bringing their tour to the Bob Graham Center for Public Service on Jan. 20 at 6 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora. It will be a frank discussion on poverty, homelessness and the impact that these economic issues have on our society. The event is free and open to the public.
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