Tavis Smiley Launches New PBS Series

Tavis Smiley is launching a new television series on PBS that promises to be informative and inspirational.

In the first edition of Tavis Smiley Reports, which airs this Wednesday, January 27 at 8:00 PM Eastern, Tavis uses exclusive access to Hillary Clinton to examine her first year as secretary of state and looks ahead to the challenges of the next three years.

Three other specials are planned.  The second, to air on March 31 at 8:00 PM Eastern, Tavis Smiley Reports examines one of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s greatest speeches, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” which he delivered on April 4, 1967, at Riverside Church in New York City. The third episode, to air Summer 2010, looks at the reconstruction of New Orleans in the five years since the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. The airdate and topic of the fourth Tavis Smiley Reports will be announced in 2010.