BRICK Winner may replace Tavis Smiley

Van Jones, a 1996 BRICK Award (now the Do Something Award) winner, may be replacing Tavis Smiley, one of America’s most celebrated and respected media personalities, as commentator on the nationally syndicated “Tom Joyner Morning Show.”

Do Something saw the potential of this rising star way back in 1996 when he won a BRICK for founding and directing the San Francisco-based Bay Area Police Watch, an organization that assists survivors of police misconduct and brutality.