DEMOCRACY NOW : DECEMBER 24 : EBONICS. GAYS AND PRIMETIME TV / Pacifica Foundation| Produced by Julie Drizin and Amy Goodman| hosted by Amy Goodman. - Democracy Now is a daily election year program which takes an in-depth look at the political landscape and interviews visionaries from all walks of life, including members of grassroots organizations who challenge the status quo. - CONTENT: pt.1. Political headlines (3:00) -- pt.2. The controversy over Ebonics, the African American vernacular, otherwise known as Black English| guest John Rickford, Linguistics Professor at Stanford University who teaches a course on African American vernacular and is co-authoring a book on Ebonics and Toni Cook, a board member of the Oakland Unified School District and an initiator of the Task Force on the Status of African American Students in Oakland (16:00) -- pt.3. More on Ebonics (4:00) -- pt.4. Gays and lesbians are coming out in primetime media, former CNN reporter Ed Alwood wnt into the dark closet of American history and uncovered some of the most hateful, homophobic and hysterical reporting that pretended to pass itself as respectable news| Alwood also confronted some of the journalists who filed anti-gay stories, including Mike Wallace of CBS.(15:00) -- pt.5. More on gays in the news (17:00) - Broadcast on December 24, 1996.
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