DJ Beverly Bond’s Black Girls Rock Program is FLY
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Beverly Bond is more than just an a-list DJ and former model. She is a woman with a purpose, and community activist who has decided to use her fame and influence to change popular culture. Bond founded the Black Girls Rock program as a way to empower young women and to change the mainstream media image of minority women as objects. In her interview with the Today show she said that “girls in hip hop videos are just there as a part of the set, like a prop. What message does that send to young women out there? I had to do something to change that.” And with the help of Scratch DJ Academy, she has.
According to the website, the mission of Black Girls Rock is “a mentoring outreach program targeting ‘at-risk’ teenage women of color. This charity has been established to promote the arts and encourage dialogue about the images of women in hip hop music & culture, as well as promote analysis of the ways women of color are portrayed in mainstream media. ” For more information of the program and its founder CLICK HERE
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