Fox Host Blames Hip-Hop For Success Tech Shootings
October 14, 2007
Chris Richburg, AllHipHop.com
Shades of Don Imus’s controversial radio scandal arose this week, as nationally syndicated Fox News host John Gibson placed the blame of a recent school shooting in Cleveland, Ohio on Hip-Hop culture.
During a Wednesday (Oct. 10) broadcast of Gibson’s radio show the John Gibson Show, Gibson said he “knew” that the person at the center of the shooting, 14-year-old Asa Coon, was white, because “‘he killed himself.”
Stanley Crouch: BET’s ‘Gangster’ a public service
October 14, 2007
Stanley Crouch
For all of the easily understood protests against Black Entertainment Television, or BET, for crude and vulgar programming, the second season of the station’s “American Gangster” is continuing a public service of stellar significance.
By providing well-written and well-researched documentary work, each episode is quite important because it deglamorizes the sort of criminal activity that may be lucrative and may be far too frequently celebrated by hip-hop but is, first and foremost, an ongoing blight on the African American communities across this nation. In each show, we see the bloody and intimidating cost that the African American community pays to criminals, from the infamous Tookie Williams, legendary founder of the Crips, to, just last week, Philadelphia’s black Mafia, which was headquartered in the Nation of Islam’s Mosque No. 12.
Do Missing Black Women Matter?
October 12, 2007
Kevin Eason, EURweb.com
When it comes to missing persons, the media has been consistent on two points. One, if the missing person is female, white and attractive by media standards, that case is going to get plenty of attention. There will be interviews with the victim’s family, friends, teachers, pastor, and family pet.
There will be pictures in newspapers both national and local. Film of the victim will be on as many newscasts as possible. And fliers will be everywhere.
The Crossroads of History: America’s Best Black Colleges
October 9, 2007
Diane Cole, U.S. News & World Report
Tryan McMickens recalls the “huge blow” he felt when, as one of only a few dozen African-American students at a large, predominantly white public high school in suburban Atlanta, he heard his favorite teacher advise him not to even consider applying to a historically black college. “She told me those schools would not be the best fit for me because those schools are not the best schools,” he says.
His experience at Tuskegee University, where he received his bachelor’s degree in December 2005, proved her wrong on both counts. “While I was there I found a deep passion for research and for working in higher education,” says McMickens, now a doctoral student in higher education management at the University of Pennsylvania. “To be around students [at Tuskegee] who look like you and who are ambitious and who set these tremendous goals was encouraging and empowering,” he says.
Sharpton Seeks an Apology Over Thomas’s Language
October 8, 2007
RICHARD SANDOMIR and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, New York Times
Four days after Knicks Coach Isiah Thomas was held liable for sexual harassment, the Rev. Al Sharpton said yesterday that Thomas must apologize if he felt there was a different standard between black and white men in using a derogatory term toward black women.
In a video of Thomas’s deposition, he was seen saying it was less offensive for a black man to call a black woman a “bitch” than it was for a white man.
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