LOS ANGELES (April 2, 2013) – The Parents Television Council (PTC), along with Rap Rehab, Industry Ears, and a broad coalition of organizations, is calling on radio stations across the country to cease airing a song called “U.O.E.N.O.” that infers drugging a woman and taking her home to rape her. In addition, the PTC is calling on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to review whether broadcasters are violating their public interest obligation by airing music that promotes date rape and drug use.

The song by rapper Rick Ross talks about “molly,” a slang term for a narcotic that is used to reduce inhibitions and promote feelings of euphoria and sexuality, in other words, a date-rape drug.

The lyrics in question are as follows:

“Put molly all in her champagne/She ain’t even know it
I took her home and I enjoyed that/ She ain’t even know it.”

Paul Porter

“There is never a good reason for songs legitimizing or glorifying rape to be played or promoted by radio stations…ever,” said PTC President Tim Winter. “Radio stations that have played this song must be held publicly accountable for breaching their statutory public interest obligation, and thus, we are calling on the FCC to investigate. Radio stations make a commitment to serve the public interest when they receive a broadcasting license. Promoting date rape is certainly not in the public interest.”

Rap Rehab Founder and PTC Advisory Board Member Paul Porter has also called on radio stations to halt playing Ross’ song. “This drug-rape culture has become a permanent theme song for broadcasters for far too long, but I’ve never seen the African-American community so outraged over song lyrics like these. The issues the song touches on -  date rape and drug use – have hit a nerve and now we are saying enough is enough.”

This issue is particularly sensitive given the discussion about ‘a culture of rape’ in this country surrounding the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case. If we don’t stand up against this kind of vile material now, how far will things go in the future? For too long, broadcasters have green-lighted content that promotes violence and denigrates women. It’s time to hold broadcasters accountable,”

- Paul Porter

For more information on the coalition and the Rap Rehab petition, see http://raprehab.com/petition-rape-rick-ross-and-responsibility-rrr/.

The Parents Television Council® (www.parentstv.org®) is a non-partisan education organization advocating responsible entertainment. It was founded in 1995 to ensure that children are not constantly assaulted by sex, violence and profanity on television and in other media. This national grassroots organization has more than 1.3 million members and 56 chapters across the United States, and works with television producers, broadcasters, networks and sponsors in an effort to stem the flow of harmful and negative messages targeted to children. The PTC™ also works with elected and appointed government officials to enforce broadcast decency standards. Most importantly, the PTC produces critical research and publications documenting the dramatic increase in sex, violence and profanity in entertainment. This information is provided free of charge so parents can make informed viewing choices for their own families.

Industry Ears is a consortium of entertainment and broadcast industry professionals with more than 60 years of experience dedicated to revealing truth and promoting justice in media.

Rap Rehab aims to reach young people to give the untold truth about how the music industry works.

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Last week Martin was on HuffPostLive with Marc Lamont Hill and characterized CNN as being comprised of “largely white males.”

Martin also alleged that the cable network is not comfortable with the idea of “having strong, confident minorities” in more prominent positions.

There’s still this fear, there’s this fear of actually making a leap… you have largely white male executives, okay, who are not necessarily enamored with the idea of having strong, confident minorities who say, ‘I can do this’… We deliver, but we never get the big piece, the larger salary, to be able to grow from there.”

Full story HERE.

While speaking to me on “Mo’Kelly in the Morning” on Friday 3.29.13, Martin downplayed his exit from CNN.  You can here my conversation with Roland HERE. (shuttle program to 1 hour and 14 minutes into podcast) 

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Mo’Kelly will be hanging out at the Alpha Kappa Alpha public meeting tomorrow night (Thursday) at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.  If you’d like to say hello or give Mo’Kelly a piece of your mind, feel free to let your voice be heard.

If you have something you’ve been wanting to say…say it.  Let your voice be heard.  Over the past three years Mo’Kelly has received all sorts of emails, notes and letters expressing a wide expanse of thoughts and emotions.  Some were complimentary, others confrontational.

Mo’Kelly will be hanging with the Ques tomorrow evening.  Come say hello.  If there are thoughts you’d like to express to Mo’Kelly personally, you are welcome to do so and gladly I will engage you in respectful, substantive dialogue.

Word on the street that Alpha Kappa Alpha Supreme Basileus Carolyn House Stewart will also be in attendance tomorrow.  She is welcome to engage Mo’Kelly as well.

Looking forward to meeting everyone.

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Dionne Warwick has filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy over tax liens dating to the 1990s.

Dionne Warwick

Rolling Stone reports that the five-time Grammy winner, 72, filed on March 21, ending a lengthy relationship with the IRS that reportedly began with an inept business manager.

“Ms. Warwick had a business manager who mismanaged her affairs,” her attorney Daniel Stolz told Rolling Stone. “Before she knew it, she owed a gazillion dollars in taxes. She’s actually paid more than the face amount of the taxes, but with all of the crazy interest and penalties that they add, the number kept mushrooming — even though she paid off the amount that she owed in terms of the actual taxes.”

Warwick’s financial issues have resurfaced multiple times during the past 15 years, though the manager in question was fired several years ago. According to Stolz, the singer filed taxes annually and was unable to come to an agreement with the IRS despite several attempts. At one point, the IRS allegedly lost Warwick’s file for several years. In 2012, the performer’s name could be found on a 2012 list of the Top 500 people and businesses owing significant unpaid taxes in the state of California.

Full story HERE.

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From The Huffington Post:

I wept during my interview of the late Dorothy Height, President of the National Council of Negro Women during the 2008 Democratic Convention. I was overwhelmed by her majesty, grace and the knowing that my generation had not honored her life of tremendous sacrifice. I pledged to honor great men and women like her by encouraging youth to not be perfect; but to do better. Thus, on December 27th, it felt like I was struck by a ton of bricks when I viewed the Oxygen Media pilot of their offensively titled All My Babies’ Mamas. As dysfunctional and violent as so-called reality shows are, I never imagined a one hour spectacle being scheduled for broadcast, where 11 innocent children are forced to witness their 10 unwed mothers clamor for financial support, emotional attention and sexual reward from their so-called ‘father’? Now erased from the Internet, the ‘show’ depicted the most egregious stereotypes of black families, exploitation of innocent children, an attack on all parents and those heroes who serve vulnerable populations.

Where were the failures in checks and balances that a team of television executives that thought that this content was appropriate to market to Oxygen Media’s young, female audience? Knowing that this irresponsible content had crossed the line, I created my first petition ever on Change.org. Outraged consumers shared the petition on social media, while fellow coalition members ignited their networks: Kimberly Clark; The Parent Television Council; Gary Johnson, Publisher, Black Men in America; Mo’ Kelly, radio talk show host on KFI/ KTLK, Paul Porter, founder of Industry Ears/Rap Rehab and Ulysses “Butch” Slaughter of The Odyssey Project.

Full Story HERE

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Just when you think you’ve seen it all…you haven’t. If this fool didn’t waste so much time knocking over the flag, he could’ve had some real mic time. On the not-so-funny side, if he (or someone) meant real harm to the mayor, he was loose far too long on the stage without intervention.

Nice of the dude to get indignant for security “interrupting” him. This is the internet at its best. Gotta love live TV. (Warning: Vulgar language)

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