Angelica Moss, CPA, MPA

The Anti-Video Girl Movement was born out of my outrage and disgust over the majority of hip-hop and R & B videos on a popular B.E.T. video countdown show.  I was shocked at the mature content of the videos, but was even more appalled at the slick packaging used to sell sex to African American youth.  I watched the entire program, hoping to see videos that balanced or countered any of the sexually explicit lyrics and images, but saw none.  Where was the antithesis of the video model? 

I wish to create a sense of urgency in parents, advocates, congregations, and communities to stand up for our African American girls and to value them as much as our African American boys.  Despite the “generation gap,” parents, advocates, and youth leaders must be educated on how to uplift and support African American girls during their most impressionable years of self-development and discovery.