TRAVIS SMILEY is the host of BET Tonight with Travis Smiley, a nightly television talk show that reaches sixty million households. He has interviewed everyone from Bill Clinton to Pope John Paul II, from Fidel Castro to Bill Cosby. In addition, Smiley's political and social commentary is heard twice weekly on The Tom Joyner Morning Show, a national radio program with a listenership of seven million. The Smiley Report, his quarterly newsletter, has a circulation of three to four million readers. The author of Hard Left, On Air, and, most recently, How to Make Black America Better, Smiley is one of the most celebrated commentators in America. He lives in Los Angeles.