On at trip to Barbados several years ago, a trustee of the Paul Green Foundation was stunned at the power of the message on a monument depicting the abolition of slavery by Queen Victoria in 1860. After realizing that North Carolina had no comparable monument, Green, the grandson of North Carolina author Paul Green, recommended […]
Brandi N. Williams
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Black Exploitation TV
It’s 5:30 p.m. on a Thursday evening and hundreds of people have gathered outside Durham’s Carolina Theatre to participate in Black Entertainment Television’s (BET) first taping of 106 & Park, the highest-rated, regularly scheduled music series on television. The rain is not enough to dampen the spirits of the predominately teenage crowd, who have stood […]
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Cleaning Up Black (Entertainment) Television
As a means of making BET a more responsible network, Jocelyn Womack recommends the following changes: · Increase positive programming to counteract the negative images. Womack says MTV does a great job of balancing its “trash TV” by producing shows like True Life and Flipped and by involving themselves in community awareness campaigns like the […]
