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.
Last week, the author and entrepreneur joined 130 other influential black women – in politics, entertainment and nonprofits – in Washington to talk about portrayals of black women in the media, the problems facing black girls, the state of the black family. The sponsor of this gathering? BET.
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