Twitter Me This? Progress On Pause: Who Leads Directs or Convenes the Black Agenda? | Tavis Smiley vs Al Sharpton | Scholars vs Activists

In his persistent effort to keep the Obama administration “accountable,” Tavis Smiley announced this morning that he would convene a panel of black leaders to take on the question: Is there a need for a Black Agenda? Calling this symposium, “We Count! The Black Agenda is America’s Agenda,” Smiley is determined to push back on those black leaders, like Al Sharpton, who emerged from a recent meeting with the president declaring that the president did not need a special “black agenda” and expects them to explain exactly what they mean. The event, scheduled to be broadcast nationally, will take place in Chicago on Saturday, March 20th.

This turn of events begs the questions?

• Who directs the black agenda?
• Who sponsors the black agenda?
• Did the black agenda include a black president?
• Do leaders of the black agenda agree on the agenda?
• Why are leaders so often meeting on the black agenda?
• Is there an economic movement to come from the agenda?
• Why cancel SOBU if only to recovene another symposium of black leaders?

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