Media & The Black Family – The Genocide Called “Entertainment”

We see it more evident now than ever before – poor to non-existent portrayal of positive images, roles and actions in the media involving the black family. Television, Movies and Music has long moved away from “I’m Black and I’m Proud.” Today it is challenging to locate ANY positive black roles in the media form that is positive and empowering. This BILLION DOLLAR industry where Blacks dominate in population does NOT represent blacks in positive roles as whites are. If black positive media is created; it is often difficult to locate, poorly advertised and is unrecognized. The fallout of the above is a crisis – the black family is further destroyed from the inception of slavery and the Moynihan Papers as blacks are awarded for dysfunction in the media. The last three Oscars awarded to blacks demonstrate this, television is comprised of all white cast shows and music has become sexually demonstrative. What message is this sending to black men, women, their families and their communities? Please join Denise Bolds, MSW and Dr. Sheril Antonio, Associate Dean for Film, Television, New Media, & Recorded Music and an Associate Arts Professor in the Department Art and Public Policy at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as we discuss this evidently ignored phenomenon. Get ready to be EMPOWERED!