Not just talk: Tavis Smiley has branched out from broadcasting into an empire that includes a speakers bureau, a book imprint and an events production company. Black entrepreneurs, he says, succeed against the odds.

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Not just talk: Tavis Smiley has branched out from broadcasting into an empire that includes a speakers bureau, a book imprint and an events production company. Black entrepreneurs, he says, succeed against the odds.

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TAVIS Smiley, the TV and radio talk show host, author and social commentator, has received much attention, but Tavis Smiley the entrepreneur and business owner is largely unknown. Behind Smiley's multiple media ventures there is a mini-empire that employs more than 70 people. In addition to a television show on PBS and a radio show distributed by Public Radio International, both of which are owned by Smiley, his business ventures consists of a speakers bureau with a roster that includes Harvard professor Hen...

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