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BET News Premieres the Third and Final Episode of ‘Hip Hop vs. America II:
Where Did the Love Go?’ Saturday, July 5th @ 8:00 P.M.*

BET News gives the ladies the final word with HIP HOP VS. AMERICA II: WHERE DID THE LOVE GO?.  Hosted by MC Lyte and Jeff Johnson, this controversial town hall meeting joins an all female panel to candidly explore the role that Hip Hop plays in the way young women are raised in America today.  Does the lack of female MC’s have anything to do with the way females are represented in Hip Hop today? This third installment touches on this and a whole lot more, tune in Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 8 p.m.*.

The final episode of HIP HOP vs. AMERICA II: WHERE DID THE LOVE GO? premieres
Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 8 p.m.* with an encore presentation of all three
episodes on Sunday, July 6 beginning at 8 p.m.*  Selwyn Seyfu Hinds is
executive producer of HIP HOP VS. AMERICA II: WHERE DID THE LOVE GO?.

Participants in the HIP HOP VS. AMERICA II series include David Banner
(rapper/producer); Lil X (director); Talib Kweli (hip hop recording artist);
Lyfe Jennings (R&B recording artist); Lola Ogunnaike (journalist); Allison
Samuels (Newsweek magazine); Nelson George (author/director/producer); Kevin
Powell (writer/cultural critic); Michael Eric Dyson (author/professor,
Georgetown University); Deelishis London Charles (winner, Flavor of Love 2);
Angel Lola Love (video model/actress); Kim Osorio (author); Fershgenet Melaku
(video model/actress); Michaela Angela Davis (journalist); Esther Armah (BBC
journalist); Eugene Rivers (Christian activist); Clayton Gavin (hip hop
artist/activist); Marc Lamont Hill (professor, Temple University); Melissa
Harris Lacewell (professor, Princeton University); Lavonne Alford (recording
artist); Beverly Bond (founder, Black Girls Rock, Inc. / hip hop DJ); Moya
Bailey (activist/actor); Byron Hurt (filmmaker); Henry Bonsu (journalist);
Akosua Anobil-Dodoo (journalist); LaShawna Stanley (President/CEO, Ethnicity
Models); Ali LeRoi (producer/writer/director); M1 Dead Prez (hip hop
artist/activist); and San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris.