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Thursday, December 4th, 2008

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Now is the time to open your ears, eyes, nose and mouth to clear out the pollutants that the media has planted to contaminate your brain. If the media is the disease then the truth is the cure. . Nowhere is this infectious disease more apparent than in Rap Music, at one time rap music was like listening to an intellectual conversation but somehow in the passing of time that mind provoking conversation turned to nothing more than pure garbage. If Music is a way to appeal to the masses what better way for the media and record labels to plant seed of deception, and untruths to the large Black and Hispanic communities. Come sign your name on the dotted lines and we will promises to give you the same riches promised to you from the Heavens above. Gold! Diamonds! Riches beyond your wildest dreams and all we want in return is for you to deceive your people and lead them into thinking the things you rap about are the TRUTH. They tell you give up your Morals, your Pride, your Family Commitment cause you don’t need those things to be a rich player or sexy hip hop video model. So you heard the video dir ector girl “Go ahead bend ova and grab your ankles and make your booty clap cause we gonna make you into a star”! And man, “Why have one woman when you can have many?” “So go ahead and have fifteen baby mommas with no committed, cause your momma is still going to be so proud of you as she is driving away in that brand new Benz you bought by selling lies to your people.” It was once said anything built on lies would fall by the same lies so you artist better stop feeding lies to your people and start educating them with the Truth!

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Missing- Jewel Strong

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

HipHopGivesBack.org would like your help. We are trying to assist The Strong family find their missing daughter Jewel. All Details are below!

If you have info on Jewel Strong, contact her family. Please try all numbers. We found that some were not working at the time we double-checked:

Racharel Strong (father) 404.357.1881
Simona Strong (mother) - 404.313.4255
Tiesa Locklear (aunt) - 678.234.4902
Tramesa Locklear (aunt) 678.480.1635
Ursala Williams (aunt) 678.362.5246

You can also visit www.letsfindjewelstrong.com

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Kevin Powell is widely considered one of America's most important voices in these early years of the 21st century. Legendary feminist Gloria Steinem asserts that "as a charismatic speaker, leader, and a very good writer, Kevin Powell has the courage...to be fully human, and this will bring the deepest revolution of all." Internationally acclaimed scholar and social critic Dr. Michael Eric Dyson has called Powell "a mighty wind of fresh air." And of Kevin Powell, the writer asha bandele says, "When you consider the intelligence and breadth of Kevin Powell's writing and activism, you come to the conclusion that there may be no better spokesperson and representative for a generation that has too long been counted out."

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A gifted and highly sought after public speaker, Powell has lectured on multiculturalism, building corporate responsibility, American and Black American history, the life of Dr. King, civil rights, American politics and civic engagement, sexism from a male perspective, leadership, social activism, the state of hiphop, redefining American manhood, and being Black and male in America, among other topics, at hundreds of colleges and universities, community centers, prisons, religious institutions, conferences, and festivals, as well as in corporate settings. Furthermore, Kevin Powell routinely offers his insights on a variety of matters, to TV, radio, newspaper, magazine, and internet outlets in America, and abroad.

A fixture on the pop culture landscape the past several years, Powell was a cast member on the first season of MTV's "The Real World"; hosted and produced programming for HBO and BET; written a screenplay; hosted and wrote an award-winning MTV documentary about post-riot Los Angeles; and was the Guest Curator of the Brooklyn Museum of Art's "Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes, and Rage" which originated at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, and of which Powell was the exhibition consultant" the first major exhibit in America on the history of hiphop.

Of paramount importance to Kevin Powell, however, is his activism. He has been a leader in some form or fashion for over twenty years, dating back to his days as a teenager at Rutgers University. He was a participant in the student-led anti-apartheid movement, the drive to end racism in South Africa. He has been at the forefront of police brutality and racial bias cases. He has worked for years around voting rights. Powell is one of the most prominent voices in the hiphop generation, and he has organized a number of concerts, mc battles, rallies, and forums that stress the use of hiphop as a tool for social change. As a result of his own past personal struggles, contradictions, growth, and a commitment to therapy and healing, Kevin has become a very outspoken critic of violence against women and girls, of violence in general, and he has been at the forefront of the movement to redefine American manhood away from sexism and violence. Powell also plays a key role in the Black male development arena, having produced, the past few years, among other things, a 10-city State of Black Men Tour, numerous Black male think tank sessions, and Black and Male in America, a 3-Day national conference (http://www.blackandmaleinamerica.org). Powell has taught, mentored, and counseled in schools, camps, prisons, and on the streets of urban America. He produces an annual holiday party and clothing drive every December in New York City that benefits the needy. And Powell was a central figure in Gulf Coast disaster relief efforts, facilitating the delivery of goods and services to the affected regions, and being a cofounder of "Katrina on the Ground," an initiative that sent over 700 college students to work in the devastated region.

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