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Exposin’ the Hip Hop Hood Hoax TRUTH Minista Paul Scott “Mental pictures, stereotypes and fake history reinforces mystery.” Why is that ? Boogie Down Productions From birth ,we are taught to believe myths. We start off believing fables about tooth fairies and an old fat dude in a red suit ridin’ around the hood in

FROM NPR – All Things Considered “How do you feel about strip clubs?” That was their opening line. My colleagues Sara Sarasohn and Zoe Chace wanted to know if I’d be willing to go to Atlanta to report on how hip-hop records are broken, or launched, in strip clubs. Truth is, I’d never been to

BET’s Debra Lee seeks to improve black women’s images with leadership talks By Krissah Thompson Washington Post Bonnie McDaniel refused to let her now 24-year-old daughter watch Black Entertainment Television growing up. She hated the oversexed, booty-shaking music videos. She thought the programming objectified black women. She would bad-mouth the network with her girlfriends. This

During Grammy week, more than 20 artists signed a statement encouraging Congress to pass the controversial Performance Rights Act (PRA), a bill that would require radio to pay royalties to musicians for playing their songs. Artists who signed the statement during Grammy Week included Tre Cool, Mike Dirnt and Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day,

BET Networks will present celebrity concert and telethon for Haitian relief on Feb. 5 (January 28, 2010) BET Networks, a division of Viacom will present a nationally televised concert and celebrity telethon aimed at several organizations providing immediate relief in Haiti, including Yele Haiti, CARE, Project Medishare and Children’s Safe Drinking Water. The two hour