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• BET = Bad Entertainment Television. BET refuses to play De La Soul & BeatNuts Videos. They can play booty videos all night & day that depict Black Women as hookers - & refuse to play some real shit. A dam shame . There is nothing "Black" about this network anymore -- they are about as "Black" as McDonalds or Burger Thing. Just Bad. F**k 'em. [more] Debra Lee is the president and chief operating officer of Bad Entertainment Television."BET gets beat up for playing what is selling in stores and getting played in constant rotation on the radio," Lee told Essence. "It is an issue BET has to deal with.... Years ago, the concern was violence. Now it's sexuality, and some artists go too far. If artists put out videos like this and people don't like it, they should vote at the record store." [more]
  
• Check Out the HipHop Library [here]
  
• Black suicide rates spur action [more]
• WHERE'S THE TIMES WHEN COPS ARE CLEARED? [more] Here is a clear example of an uninformed, ignorant white man, who without doing any research, decided to write an article about how white cops never get off in police brutality cases. What a jack-ass. White cops (or any other kind of cops) getting sent to prison is the Exception not the rule. Why even when white cops are caught on video tape beating or shooting Black or Brown Men to death they go free. [[see for yourself]
  
• A San Jose CopWatch group aims to keep the police in line [more]
• 1/28: Critical Hearing About Sheila Detoy [more]
  
• NAACP shouldn't rule out women to carry the torch [more]
• Robert R. Merhige Jr., 86, a federal judge whose desegregation orders made him a target for violence, died Friday at a Richmond, Va., hospital of complications from open heart surgery.
• Study: Minorities feel unaccepted, cite racism as schoolwide problem [more]
• Mohawk: U.S. policy in Iraq not sustainable [more]
  
• Slugger bashes media, cites racism [more]
• Evil Spreading Far, Wide: the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad [more]
• Busted in Brooklyn: Three activists went out to police the police—and ended up in jail [more]
• Why Malcolm Matters [more]
• "Piss on Me" The newest Belgian fad--a Bush urinal sticker.[more]
• Horowitz’s Vast Left Wing Conspiracy [more]
  
• Rapper "C-Murder"  angers Louisiana sheriff with jailhouse music video [more]
  
• Starvation is Part of the Economic Plan [more]
  
• Charlie Parker sax sells for 262,000 dollars at jazz auction [more]
  
• Ishmael Reed's most recent book is ''Blues City: A Walk in Oakland.'' He is writing a book about Muhammad Ali. [more]
  
• Police report OKs use of tasers [more]
• Al-Zarqawi Tops U.S. List of Most Wanted [more]
  
• Go-Go Music Blamed For Club Violence [more]
• Shabazz lectures, despite blackout [more]
• Judge OKs forced feeding if prisoner resumes hunger strike [more]
• Bush Administration's Top-Guns Members of Secret Society [more]
  
• MD lawmakers at the General Assembly yesterday to support proposal to impose greater penalties for assaults on police officers. [more]
• Probe clears Springdale Twp. officer [more]
• Racist Group to Target NASCAR Fans in Daytona [more]
  
• Jaywalking teen fails to show in court [more]
• Oakland settles lawsuit over teen's beating [more]
• Cortez Jordan, the young black man who charged that racial profiling motivated a Eugene police officer to stop him while he walked with four white friends in September, filed notices Friday that he intends to sue the city and the county over the incident. [more]
• Reparations debate gets forum in Lexington [more]
  
• San Diego Inmate Beat Down by Deputies Wins $100,000 Lawsuit [more]
• Neoconservatives push internment for American Muslims [more]
  
•  WARNING: Joining the military is hazardous [more]
• San Antonio Local graffiti artists claim the cops are unfairly targeting them [more]
• Fruitvale residents lament pimp infestation [more]
• NY Times: More Africans Enter U.S. Than in Days of Slavery [more] that is voluntarily
• Dinkins looks back with pride [more]
• New bill boosts tech funding to HBCUs [more]
  
• U.S. Blacks Hold Just Over Eight Percent Of All Fortune 500 Board Seats [more]
• O’Reilly Targets First African-American D.A. in Georgia, Uncle of the Magic’s Dwight Howard and Person Who Prosecuted NFL’s Ray Lewis for Murder [more]
• According to national Geographic, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" the book appears to be in danger of becoming a relic. Last year, about 18,000 copies of Uncle Tom's Cabin were sold—roughly half of the total in 2001 [more]
• Interview with Mary Frances Berry [here]
• Harvard investment is targeted [more]
• Former inmate tells of life in prison under Rockefeller drug laws [more]
• Hundreds apply for NAACP top post [more]
• Black Brooklyn firefighter files complaint after noose was left at the station [more]
• Jamaican-American Councilmember Fired Up Over Lack Of Diversity At Fire Dept. [more]
  
• Officers say minority numbers troubling: lots of minority Cops in Boston but few in Charge [more]
• Black and Puerto Rican Legislators Caucus In Albany [more]
•  Book Review: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South [more]
  
• Distorted View of Black Women [more]
  
• No New Jails
• "White athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be," ..."The light-eyed and white skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule." - Jose Canseco in his new book.
  
• Another Jacksonville Corrections Officer Accused Of Jail Beating [more]
• Taser gun safety is questioned as 85 die [more]
• Man begs police not to use stun gun on him during raid [more]