THE PRIMARY REASON FOR THE MASS MARKETING OF THE N-WORD ON AN INTERNATIONAL SCALE: "JUST IMAGINE 100 MALCOLM Xs OR 100 MARTINs - NOT EVEN 100 - 10 MALCOLM Xs, 10 MARTINs NOBODY WANTS THAT! IT'S TOO POWERFUL – TO HAVE AN EDUCATED BLACK MAN WHO KNOWS HIS HISTORY, NOT JUST FROM THE SHORES HERE IN THE AMERICAS, BUT ANCIENT AFRICAN HISTORY. PEOPLE DON'T WANT THAT, SO THEY DUMB DOWN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM – IT'S FILLED WITH MISEDUCATION, MISINFORMATION, AND THE KIDS DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING, THEY DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE." [BN-W, January 2007]
eNewsletter List
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Ban the N-Word (BN-W)
Film(s) Monitored: The Princess and the Frog; Invictus; Armored; The Blind Side
TOPICS: Kwanzaa; BN-W Suggested Reading - Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present (Deborah Willis) and Celia, A Slave (Melton A. McLaurin); Puzzles For Us; BBC Four Documentary - Racism: A History; Princess Amira (the pre-Tiana princess); and more...
Film(s) Monitored: Precious; 2012; Skin; This Is It; Law Abiding Citizen; Black Dynamite; Good Hair; Fame
TOPICS: DIVAS (Digital Interactive Visual Arts Sciences) for Social Justice; Theatre - Broke-ology and Fela!; Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie speaks on the stereotyping of African culture; Black hair industry, Koreans, and Aron Ranen's "Black Hair Documentary"; Target Market News and Black spending power; 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma race riot (Black Wall Street); Regina Kimbell and "My Nappy Roots"; and more...
Film(s) Monitored: Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself; The Taking of Pelham 123; Imagine That
TOPICS: Fela! on Broadway; Jonathan McCoy (youth speech against the N-word); BN-W's Imagery & Its Power!; Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine (LASM) scholarship opportunity; Anthony T. Browder and the IKG Cultural Center presents the campaign for the John Henrik Clarke Commemorative Stamp, Van Sertima Cultural Circles, Asa Hilliard and the ASA Restoration Project, Elena Pischikova and the Kushite tombs, and Will Smith and The Last Pharaoh connection; Ivan Van Sertima; John Hope Franklin; and more...
BN-W FIFTH YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Film(s) Monitored: Dance Flick; Next Day Air; Fighting; Obsessed; The Soloist; American Violet; Fast and Furious; Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail
TOPICS: BN-W/Educate-Empower; Imagery and Its Power presentations; new chart format with one-word overviews and DVD spending; and more...
Film(s) Monitored: Not Easily Broken; Notorious
TOPICS: Black History Month; "Gifted Hands" film about neurosurgeon Ben Carson; Schomburg Center; Paul Obinna and the Hogarth-Blake 8000-year African and European history Timeline; President Barack Hussein Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, the White House, and Air Force One; and more...
Film(s) Monitored: Doubt; Seven Pounds; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
TOPICS: Barack Obama's change.gov, transition team, and Cabinet/key staff picks; Gaza massacre; Israeli occupation/settlement; maps and history of Israel/Palestine conflict; Zionism - Malcolm X, Benjamin Freedman, Theodor Herzl, Balfour Declaration, and the taking of Palestine; New York Times, CNN, Al Jazeera, and media bias; Cynthia McKinney, Gaza, and 1967 Israeli attack of the USS Liberty; and more...
