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Tavis Smiley at Eso Won Books | Black Cultural Events

The most positive radio in LA is KBLA Talk 1580 and Eso Won Books will be live with Tavis Smiley discussing new fall book releases including Nikole Hannah-Jones' seminal work, The 1619 Project, Will Smith's biography Will, The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama, and many more.

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