BET celebrates 25 years on the air (0)
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28 (UPI) The nation s top African-American stars flocked to the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium for the taping of 25 Strong: The BET Silver Anniversary Special.
BET s first video host Donnie Simpson, Alicia Keys, Steve Harvey, Diddy, Usher, Queen Latifah, Arsenio Hall, Whitney Houston, Serena Williams and MC Hammer were just a few of the speakers paying tribune to what DJ Quirk called the little network that could, Billboard.com reported Friday.
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Earth, Wind & Fire, LL Cool J, New Edition, Mary J. Blige and Method Man, R. Kelly, Keys and Nelly were among the performers taped Wednesday night for broadcast on BET Tuesday.
Dear Stevie:
We’ve never met, but like untold millions of people around the world, I’m a huge fan. I can still remember flipping through my father’s vinyl albums as a boy and stumbling across “Songs in the Key of Life.” Your music continues to bring tremendous joy to people in all walks of life. So thank you.
But I have a bone to pick. Earlier this week you wrote an open letter to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., published on the holiday that now bears his name, in which you said:
“It is painful to know that needle has not moved one iota. For 36 years, we’ve had a national holiday honoring your birthday and principles; yet you would not believe the lack of progress. It makes me physically sick.”
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We as Afrikan people need to establish more independent Black media platforms in America to force the world to respect Black perspectives, especially the radical, progressive, socialist, communist, Afrocentric, Black nationalist, and Pan Afrikanist view. Because white supremacy has distorted one of American democracy s most cherished civil liberties-the freedom speech. This fundamental principle in Americanism is not enjoyed by Afrikan people. We do not have the freedom to shape and mold political opinions about news, especially Black radical views, to the America People. Only White people, and non threatening Black people, have the freedom to shape and mold opinions about news in America. For instance, the mainstream press did not seek Black radical opinions about Trump s failed insurrection on January 6, 2021. Trump, the duly elected 45th President of the United States of America, helped to orchestrate a failed coup d état to stop demo
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in the US. Any time blacks in the United States throughout history have tried to establish themselves, they’ve been stopped by white supremacists. Even after slavery was abolished well over a century ago, black people were treated disdainfully and were considered to be inferior by white folk, who also held all the power. This is why racism wasn’t just institutionalized, it was a national past time and this is why lynching continued to be used to suppress black people through the mid and even later 20th century. When towards the end of the 19th century, black people in the country had finally started to put slavery behind them and finally begun to make something of themselves and their lives, the Wilmington insurrection of 1898 took place, where the elected leadership was forced to resign and power was handed over to white supremacists, who lay was