Date: July 23rd 2008

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CNN taps nationally recognized Hip Hop expert and author Yvonne Bynoe (<a href="http://www.yvonnebynoe.com"; id="ijnr" title="www.yvonnebynoe.com">www.yvonnebynoe.com</a>) to weigh in on the controversial topic of Black women’s images in contemporary rap music videos. Her interview was taped this past weekend as part the network’s  two-part series <i id="h09u">Black in America</i>, airing today (Wednesday) and Thursday of this week.<br id="o7xe">
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    "My key contribution to the dialogue is to challenge the idea that rap artists and video actresses are the key decision-makers regarding which images of Black women are disseminated. Radio conglomerates, cable television stations and record companies are the real image makers. These multi-national entertainment companies will have Black women doing more than swinging from poles in rap videos when it becomes financially detrimental to do otherwise. For this to happen the public is going to have to strike these companies’ pockets in strategic and sustained ways," says Bynoe.<br id="o7xe1">
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Bynoe is the editor of the forthcoming book, Who's Your Mama? (<a href="http://www.softskull.com"; id="vnip" title="Soft Skull">Soft Skull</a>, May 2009), an anthology of women's writings about motherhood that addresses race, class, sexuality, identity and intimate partnership. Her other books are the acclaimed <a href="http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-932360-10-7"; id="gomx" title="Stand & Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership and Hip Hop Culture">Stand & Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership and Hip Hop Culture</a> (2004) and the Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture, the first comprehensive reference book on the topic.<br id="o7xe3">
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Earlier this year, another two Soft Skull authors were featured a major MSNBC special "A Live Conversation About Race,"  broadcast from Howard University's Washington, D.C. campus and stream simultaneously on msnbc.com—Kevin Powell the author of <a href="http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=978-0-9796636-9-7"; id="z792" title="No Sleep Til Brooklyn: Selected Poems">No Sleep Til Brooklyn: Selected Poems</a> (2008) and <a href="http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-933368-57-8"; id="w:qz" title="Some Day We'll All Be Free">Some Day We'll All Be Free</a> (2006); and Tim Wise the author of <a href="http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-933368-99-3"; id="ab5q" title="White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son">White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son</a> (Soft Skull 2005, revised edition Jan 2008), and the forthcoming <a href="http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=978-1-59376-207-0"; id="w3v4" title="Speaking
Treason Fluently">Speaking Treason Fluently</a> (Soft Skull, Sept 2008). The other panelists were Tom Joyner, Michael Eric Dyson, Malaak Compton-Rock, Kriss Turner, Mike Barnicle, Rev. Buster Soaries—"NBC Nightly News" Anchor and Managing Editor Brian Williams moderated the event.<br id="o7xe13">
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