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NPCBW's campaign against vulgar rap gets national support.
The intensive campaign by the National Political Congress of Black Women Inc. and other African-American women's groups and leaders against vulgar rap entertainment has taken on new allies.
Members of the Black Leadership Forum (BLF), a consortium of 17 national advocacy and civil rights organizations, say they have "strongly associated" themselves with and "fully support" the opposition to hardcore rap.
Speaking as the chair of BLF, Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, also president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), called for responsible leaders to join BLF, the National Political Congress and other leaders in the African-American community "to eliminate the misogynist and violent content" of rap entertainment.
"The Black community and its leadership are investing increasing efforts to reclaim the lives and futures of our youth," Lowery said. "Misogynist rap and videos fly in the face of these efforts and present a destructive, unhealthy,and unacceptable model of Black male and female interaction."
Lowery, who has made several visits to Philadelphia in recent weeks, said he feels that "an entertainment...