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There's a reason why Jay-Z and Beyonce have more money and power than any other music artists over the last 15 years or so.
Their business smarts are as sharp as knives.
The other day, news came out that Jay-Z signed a publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music. The agreement gives Hov control over the copyrights of his albums since 2008 and, at the end of 2013, music going back to 2004.
I’m not sure if this is an accurate question to start with, so I had to decipher it to make sure that I understood the question. The way I see it reality tv is a form of entertainment intended for a targeted audience, but is accessible to any viewer who desires to tune in. But the question raised specifically speaks of African Americans, therefore let’s stay on topic. Since the days of slavery, the black population has always been portrayed as lazy, and a classless group of humans created to be servants. Not only that the image of African-Americans has been the core of comedic mockery and ridiculed throughout the Jim Crow era; a culturally inferior senseless community. And yet to this day of reality tv with millions of viewers, those images continue as we see our society of women brawling and derogative name calling as if they were in a western saloon fight. Let’s not leave out the males trendy body branding or the more popular term “tattooing”, exploiting their physique across the airwaves as they demean their so called “loved one” by spreading their ego boosting love to their harem of women while they sit around and watch the cat fights, thinking to themselves, “Wow, these women really love me”. So to say that blacks are to blame for negative portrayals of African Americans on reality tv, that answer would be: First, reality tv is still a form of a less formal training of acting for entertainment, its a job, more drama = more ratings = more money. Sometimes things can become a little more saturated than others that it becomes predictable and we expect for certain things to happen. Secondly, everyone watches for their own reasoning, whether it’s to get a good laugh, or just to see that there are other dysfunctional people in the world other than themselves. Then you have those that truly believe that what you see is what you get, which leaves those convinced that this is how ALL people of a particular ethnic group behaves and because of the past culture of Afican Americans are best known of the stereotyped “baffoons” this is where the truth lies in their eyes. Then you have those that decipher the good from the bad to avoid the typical stereotype. But overall reality tv is what it is and personally I would never take fault of someone elses behavior and we all should take same precaution to that claim. And if you look at it, reality tv is a modern day spinoff of the Jerry Springer Show just a longer version. Our rebuttal question is, should there be more positive images of African Americans on tv period?
Are African American households participating in the most racist media propaganda campaign in television history by watching reality TV?
In a recent article on theGrio, Sil Lai Abrams argued that the proliferation of Black performers in reality television programming is doing nothing to help create a positive reality of the African American experience. In fact, Abrams says that our increased participation–which should be a good thing–is creating the opposite effect; it is perpetuating negative stereotypes that create false perceptions of Black people for the nation to consume.
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I never particularly imagined Oprah's favorite things becoming my favorite things, but when my mom surprised me with Oprah's favorite peanut butter, my life was complete. I fully acknowledge that Earth Balance's Coconut Peanut Butter is amazing. It adds a deliciously creamy texture and distinct peanut buttery flavor to my morning smoothies and acai bowls. What's an acai bowl, you ask?
If you want to play you must pay, your taxes that is.
50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather Jr. may not be the friends they used to be, but the boxing champ says he wishes the rapper turned boxing promoter the best. Isn’t that nice? However, he made clear that he doesn’t need 50 to succeed in business ventures.
Here’s what Floyd said about about 50 in an interview with Stiletto Jill:
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