"A
donation to the Jena Six Legal Defense Fund is my small gesture
indicating my belief that a wrongful charge and sentence should be
prevented." Read more from The Associated Press
Michael Eric Dyson's provocative hip-hop discourse Know What I Mean? tackles what Dyson says is an unavoidable question: "Does this stuff actually harm the people who listen to it?" Read more at npr.org
Nick Cannon, Lloyd, Baby Boy, Sean P, Twista, Tank, Jagged Edge, Killer
Mike, Bobby Brown, DTP's Small World and Hurricane Chris will perform
at the "Jena 6 Empowerment Concert," to be held Sept. 29 in Birmingham,
Ala. Read more at Billboard.com
More than 500 people demonstrated peacefully outside the Northwest Washington home of Debra Lee, Black Entertainment Television's chief executive, yesterday afternoon, demanding that the network stop airing what they call demeaning and offensive portrayals of African Americans. Read more at washingtonpost.com
While floating through the blogosphere I came across a listing of the 50 most influential bloggers. I noted that there were no bloggers of African descent on the list. Read more at Electronic Village
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