Bonnie McDaniel refused to let her now 24-year-old daughter watch Black Entertainment Television growing up. She hated the oversexed, booty-shaking music videos. She thought the
programming objectified black women. She would bad-mouth the network
with her girlfriends.(Pictured: From left, Ebony's Harriette Cole, BET's Loretha Jones and Essence's Mikki Taylor spoke about strong black women.)
This week, the author and entrepreneur joined 130 other successful black women -- influential in politics, entertainment and nonprofits -- at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel to talk about portrayals of black women in the media, the problems facing black girls in urban schools, the state of the black family and other weighty issues.
The sponsor of this gathering of African American alpha women: BET.
"I've been invited to many events by BET, but this is the first one I have attended," McDaniel, who lives in Fairfax, said to the cable network's chief executive Debra Lee at one of the event's workshops. "I didn't like a lot of the messages and images that were coming out. But we have the power to change that."
Lee listened and nodded.
Source: Krissah Thompson, Washington Post
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