Archive | August, 2011
Tavis Smiley & Cornel West Call on President Obama and Congress to ‘Give the Poor A Voice’”
On Wednesday, August 10, 2011, PBS talk show host, Tavis Smiley, and Princeton University professor Cornel West dined at Busboys & Poets while in Washington, DC on their 15-city poverty tour. The Tour seeks to highlight the economic disparity between rich and poor. Both Smiley and West have stirred a great deal of controversy as [...]
September 21st
In congruence with the UN International Day of Peace, an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence, we are celebrating and remembering the life and works of the late Howard Zinn in “The Howard Zinn” room at Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville on Wednesday, September 21st, 2011. This event will benefit the Zinn Education Project, [...]
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