Website:  www.BevSmithTalks.com

Bev Smith began her television and radio career in 1971 when she was named Pittsburgh’s first African-American Consumer Affairs Investigative Reporter for WPXI Television. In 1975, she was named News and Public Affairs Director for Sheridan Broadcasting and hosted a lively talk show on Sheridan's flagship station, WAMO. Since then, Bev Smith has taken her “fire brand” style of talk shows to KDKA and WTAE Radio in Pittsburgh, WNWS in Miami, WKIS in Orlando and WRC in Washington DC. Bev also worked at Black Entertainment Television for over thirteen years as the host of the popular national television talk show "Our Voices." 

Bev is currently the host of "The Bev Smith Show" heard on the American Urban Radio Networks (  Monday through Friday 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m) where she is fondly known as "The Queen of Late Night Talk." She has hosted the show since 1998, and is the only African American woman radio talk show host who has a nationally syndicated show in the country. Bev captures her audience with the latest news makers. Never afraid to tackle issues, she has lived with the homeless, walked the streets investigating prostitutes, raised money for babies with AIDS and talked with inmates on death row. She has interviewed personalities such as Bill Cosby, Vice President Al Gore, Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton and a host of guests, many of whom she now refers to as her “special 20 friends. ”The Bev Smith Show" offers a "Unique Community Connection," African-Americans know and trust her to deliver critical information and entertainment news.

Smith is especially passionate and devoted to educating the public about literacy, she has worked with a number of organizations focused on improving literacy in the nation, including "Reading is Fundamental" and "Head Start." Frequently on "The Bev Smith Show" Bev chats with a number of experts, educators and guests to find solutions to help improve literacy in America. Additionally, Bev has been honored for her work fighting AIDS, The Black Aids Institute has awarded her on numerous occasions for her contributions to educate the public about this disease.

Over the years, Bev has received nearly 300 awards, citations and trophies for her contributions in radio and television. Among them the 1990 Radio Air Crystal Award for her live radio town meeting, “Children Killing Children Over Drugs.” Mayors from Pittsburgh, PA; Jacksonville, NC; Cincinnati and Columbus, OH have declared special Bev Smith Days. For the past four years, Bev Smith has been selected by Talkers Magazine as one of the “Talkers 250, Featuring the Heavy Hundred” – and is recognized nationally as one of the most important radio talk show hosts in America.

Bev Smith is available for speaking engagements and can address the following topics:

• Politics and Current Events
  Bev Smith can address issues relevant to President Obama, other politicians and elected officials, the state of the economy, social issues and other hot topics. Bev is comfortable addressing controversial and current issues being debated in main stream media, specifically focusing on how African Americans and other minorities are impacted by these issues. She can also address health care, educational and political issues, especially topics relating to Aids, Literacy, and Violence in the African American community.

• The Lost Civil Right's Movement
  The American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) refers to the reform movements in the United States aimed at abolishing racial discrimination against African Americans and restoring suffrage in Southern states. By 1966, the emergence of the Black Power Movement, which lasted roughly from 1966 to 1975, enlarged the aims of the Civil Rights Movement to include racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and freedom from White domination. Bev Smith speaks on issues relating to the civil right's movement and discusses whether or not accomplishments achieved during this historic period have disappeared.
   

• Breast Cancer in Black Women
  Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosis among African American women, and among women nationwide. Studies have shown that when African American women follow the same preventive measures as white women, their death rates from breast cancer are very similar. However, African American women are more likely than white women to be diagnosed at later stages of the disease and are more likely to die from it. Scientists are still exploring the reasons behind these trends. As a survivor of Breast Cancer,  Bev Smith can share with audiences how she is living with this deadly disease.
  
   
• Alzheimer's in the Black Community
  Alzheimer’s disease appears to be more prevalent among Black Americans with estimates ranging from 14 percent to almost 100 percent higher than the disease’s prevalence among whites—according to a new report prepared by the Alzheimer’s Association. The report brings together for the first time an accumulating body of evidence about the scope and nature of Alzheimer’s disease in Black Americans. “Each scientific study is important research on its own, but when put together with other studies the magnitude of the crisis becomes clear,” said Orien Reid, chair of the Alzheimer’s Association Board of Directors. “Alzheimer’s disease is a ‘silent epidemic’ that has slowly invaded the Black community before most of us were even aware of its symptoms and its impact. These studies are sending us a clear wake-up call,” said Reid. “Now, the epidemic has reached crisis proportions. Bev Smith shares how this deadly disease has impacted her family.

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