Public television and radio talk show host Tavis Smiley will be offering a free lecture at Syracuse University later this month. His syndicated radio show is heard on public radio stations in the Ithaca-Cortland and Watertown markets.
Smiley will provide the keynote address for the 10th anniversary celebration of the African American Male Congress, on Friday, September 26. His talk is scheduled to begin at 6:00pm in Hendricks Chapel. Syracuse University says tickets will be free and available to the public, starting this Friday morning, at the Schine Box Office. More details on SU's website.
"The Tavis Smiley Show" is heard on WEOS (89.7) in Geneva, and WSLJ (88.9) in Watertown. From 1996 until June 2008, Smiley was a major contributor to the "Tom Joyner Morning Show," carried locally by Power 106.9 (WPHR) in Syracuse.