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...Negative messages in hip-hop music have long been a topic of concern among worried mothers and professors of popular culture alike, who call for the genre to be reformed. But controversial values are not the trademark of hip-hop generally. Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting, the director of Vanderbilt’s program in African American and Diaspora Studies, agrees that though misogynistic and violent messages are often heard through public outlets, hip-hop’s full creative spectrum is concealed by major record labels and commercial radio. There has been a widespread struggle to reconcile the artistic expression...
...It’s not, ‘You listen to hip-hop and then you go do these horrible things to women,’” Sharpley-Whiting says. The author of “Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women,” Sharpley-Whiting argues that American culture in general is over-sexualized...
Other programs to excite the public interest are in the works, Vicki Sharpley, Coordinator for the Centennial, said yesterday. Sharpley added the Committee welcomes student participation in any other form, and that all interested members of the University community should contact her office at 10 Garden...
...disorder in blacks than by their ability to find positive and useful ways of living with the severe stresses imposed by their environment. "I don't know why they aren't crazier than they are," says Dr. Hugh F. Butts, a black psychiatrist from Manhattan. Dr. Robert Sharpley of Boston, a black therapist whose practice includes a number of black students from Harvard, feels that the black capacity to survive against huge odds deserves more attention than it has received. He speculates that the kind of solidarity so often found in oppressed minorities may "give the blacks...
...Metropolitan Hotel, rapped on Correspondent William (Steve) Stevenson's door and gave the Toronto Star's 33-year-old roving newsman 24 hours to get out of Egypt. Also expelled for spreading "falsehoods and fabrications to mislead public opinion": the London Evening Standard's pretty Anne Sharpley, 26, and the London Daily Mail's fortyish Eileen Travis, a U.S. citizen. That made a total of five correspondents sent packing since Egypt seized the Suez Canal...