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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

Media are a full-time job plus overtime for children 8 to 18, a Kaiser report says. They devote 53 hours a week to those pursuits, an hour and 17 minutes more than five years ago. LA Times By Bonnie Miller Rubin Reporting from Chicago – The amount of time young people spend consuming media has