ABOUT MDR
Mother's Day Radio is a community driven initiative to create a space in mainstream media that provides a balanced and more accurate depiction of womanhood. Through MDR's engaging initiative, communities take direct action in challenging and expanding current media portrayals of womanhood to include images that significantly acknowledge the beauty, strength, character, vision, leadership, and love of the women of the world.
Mother’s Day Radio™ is a project of Art Share Los Angeles, a public benefit organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue code.
Our goal is to organize and implement successfully a call to action that results in a day of rest and uplift for women on radio. On May 12, 2007, Mother’s Day weekend, MDR launched with the participation of KJLH 102.3 fm and V100 fm in Los Angeles, CA, and WERG 90.5 fm in Erie, Pennsylvania.
MDR OBJECTIVES
1. To secure one day of radio that plays no songs containing lyrics that emphasize the body parts and sexual attributes and activities of women.
2. To secure one day of radio that plays songs containing lyrics that highlight and recognize the strength, honor, value and wisdom of the mothers, daughters, sisters—the women—of society.
3. To secure the creation, marketing and distribution of a “Mother’s Day Album” that is a collaboration of national recording artists singing music that uplifts women by honoring the strength, honor, value and wisdom of women.
4. To organize the youth across the country as leaders in the movement for Mother’s Day Radio.
5. To rally together women in solidarity to support Mother’s Day Radio.
WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT:
• There have been many debates on the state of hip-hop, the lyrics, the integrity of the music, where it comes from and how it depicts elements of Black and 'urban' life. This is NOT one of those debates.
• There have been outright verbal attacks on hip-hop and the artists and their lack of social responsibility. This is NOT one of those attacks.
• This is not a question of the validity of requesting that a human being's worth is espoused within a form of entertainment that may or may not be controlled by the artists themselves.
• This is a call to action by women, youth and men to make clear how we want women to be represented in our human culture and to implement a strategic plan for attaining it. This is an action of cooperation with artists, providing them with an opportunity for the creative self-expression of love, worth and value in their particular medium.
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Shaunelle Curry
Executive Director of Mother's Day Radio
1-888-261-4580
"INFORM. INSPIRE. INITIATE ACTION."
"I pledge to you my sister, I will never cease. I mean to say I want to see a better world. I mean to say I want to see some peace somewhere." --Dr. Maya Angelou at Coretta Scott King's Home going services.
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