NOW WELCOME BACK TO BLACK NEWS TONIGHT LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT. WHAT’S GOING ON AND WHAT’S TRENDING IN? THESE DIGITAL STREET TO BEGIN WITH SAD NEWS CONCERNING ONE OF THE FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE GAP BAND. >> RUNNING WILSON HAS PASSED
AWAY AT THE AGE OF SEVENTY THRE CONFIRMING HIS DEATH TUESDAY VIA FACEBOOK WILSON WAS A PIECE WHEN IT CAME TO. THOSE INSTRUMENT PLAYING A FEW FLUGELHORN A TRUMPET. HE ALONG WITH BROTHERS CHARLEY AND ROBERT FOUNDED THE GAP BAND IN THE LATE NINETEEN.
>> SIXTIES AND THE GROUP WAS ORIGINALLY NAMED THE GREENWOOD ARCHER PINE STREET BAND AFTER THEIR HOMETOWN IN TULSA OKLAHOMA. THAT’S WHAT YOU GET GET A READ AREA IS KNOWN FOR BEING TARGETED BY A WHITE MOB DURING THE NINETEEN TWENTY ONE
TOLD THE MASSACRE THE GAP BAND YODROPD THE BOMB ON ME UDING YOU’RE IN IT LOVE AND OF COURSE MY FAVORITE OUT STANDING. >> NOW TURNING INTO DRAMA WITHIN ONE OF OUR FAVORITE HBO SIRI’S IN SECURE YUP WE STILL TALKING ABOUT THAT CAUSE MORE
DEVELOPMENTS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ALFA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INCORPORATED ANNOUNCED PLANS TO TAKE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST THE SYRIAN. WE’RE USING THE ORGANIZATION’S BRAND WITHOUT ORGANIZATION AND SCOOTED WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION BACK IN OCTOBER CONVERSATION GREW IN THE DIGITAL STREETS AFTER ACTRESS AMANDA SEALES WORE THE
SORORITIES SHIELD AND THE LETTERS WHILE PORTRAYING THE CHARACTER TIFFANY ON THE SHOW MEMBERS OF BLACK GREEK LIFE BEGAN TO WEIGH IN ON WHETHER THEY BELIEVED IT WAS AN ACCEPTABLE CHOICE. BUT NOW THE SORORITY INVOLVED PLANS TO TAKE LEGAL ACTIONS INTO THEIR OWN
HANDS WE WANTED TO REACH OUT TO A MEMBER OF ALFA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INCORPORATED WE DID REACH OUT. WE WANTED TO GET THE PRESIDENT. ALL WE WANT TO GET EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WE WANTED TO GET A OF THE LEADERSHIP. THEY WERE UNABLE TO JOIN THIS
EVENING BUT WE WANTED TO HAVE SOMEBODY WHO’S AN EXRT O ORGANIZATIONS. OF COURSE HE’S E THE AUTHOR OF DIVINE NINE. HE IS LAWRENCE ROSS ALSO OWNER OF THREE SIXTY FIVE ALLY DOT COME AND IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW BECAUSE HE’S VERY SUBTLE WITH THIS HE’S
ALSO A MEMBER OF ALFA FILE FOR FRATERNITY TAKEOVER LAWYER MY BROTHER IS SO. >> >> TO SEE YOU I UNDERSTAND YOU YOU WROTE THIS BOOK OF DIVINE NINE AND IT’S A HISTORY OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS. DO YOU BELIEVE THE INSECURE WAS RIGHT
OR WRONG IN TERMS OF MORNING THE FILE A LAWSUIT FOR THE FOR USING THE LETTERS IN THE SHIELD ON THE SHOW. >> WELL IT’S IT’S THERE’S KIND OF A MULTIFACETED LOOK AT IT OUT THERE THANKS MARK UP. I’M PROUD OF YOU AND GREAT TO BE ON
YOUR SHELF A MOTHER FASTER BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT IS THAT YOU KNOW ALVIN ALPHA’S ALREADY INCORPORATED. >> HAS A RIGHT TO PROTECT THEIR TRADEMARK. >> WAY HAVE ALFA IN PARTICULAR TRADEMARK. >> THEIR HAND SIGN YOU KNOW WITH THE PINKY AND. THE TERMS
KIWI SO IT’S IN ONE WAY OF COURU >> KNOW YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNOW PEOPLE GET PERMISSION TO USE IT A CZ MUCHAS I LOVE INSECURE AND I DO LOVE EVERYTHING. IS A DOES THE PROBLEM IS IS THAT IF A GUY
DOESN’T GIVE PERMISSION THEN HE’S A RIGHT WITHIN YOU KNOW THE YOU KNOW THE CREATIVE TEAM AT HBO CAN PORTRAY THEM IN ANY WAY THAT THEY REALLY WANT? WAS MAY BE DETRIMENTAL TO HOW A WANTS TO BE PORTRAYED IN POP CULTURE NOW HISTORICALLY IT’S
BECOMES A LITTLE FUNGIBLE BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE KNOW IS THAT PARTICULARLY AMONGSONE FRARNIT BROTHERS DOCTOR WATCH KIMBROUGH PRESIDENT. >> AND DILLARD YOU WROTE BLACK CREEK ONE ON ONE HE. >> TALKS OFTEN TIMES ABOUT. THE FACT THAT IN NINETEEN SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES.
>> YOU SAW NON MEMBERS LIKE SWEETHEARTS IN PARTICULAR WEARING ARE LEFT. BUT REALLY THAT DOESN’T MATTER. >> UNTIL WE GET TO WET THE STANDARD IS TODAY AND TODAY FOR OUR ORGANIZATIONS YOU REALLY CAN’T USE THOSE LETTERS WERE UNLESS YOU’RE ACTUALLY A PART
OF THE ORGANIZATION OR YOU GET PERMISSION SO THAT’S THE LEGAL PIECE OF IT. THEN THERE’S THE ISN’T COOL. NO QUESTION RIGHT B THE CHARACTER ACTIVITY. >> PORTRAYS AN A K A IN A POSITIVE LIGHT. OUR COMMUNITY THIS MIGHT INCREASE PEOPLE’S
DESIRE TO BE IN A. RIGHT WHAT’S THE PROBLEM IS THAT WE SHOULD CONSIDER. >> SO NOW THAT COMES TO THE OTHER SIDE I WAS TALKING ABOUT FROM. >> THE CREATIVE SIDE AND FROM KIND OF LIKE THE BRANDING SIDE. NOW THINKING ABOUT THIS AND
UNDERSTANDING THE SECURE HAS BASICALLY BEEN ALLUDING TO. THE FACT THAT MOLLY WAS A K SINCE THE VERY FIRST EPISODE RIGHT IN FACT THAT’S KIND OF PART OF HER KEEP DRINKING FROM A MONK. >> IN DRINKING FROM A CAME UP. >> AND ONE OF THE THINGS I
THINK THERE WAS A MISSED OPPORTUNITY. I’M NOT TRYING TO TELL ME MAKE SURE THEY UNDERSTAND I’M NOT TRYINGTO OKAY TO DO THEIR BUSINESS BUT I THINK THERE’S A BIT OF A MISSED OPPORTUNITY FOR A TO LARGE. IN THIS YOU KNOW WHAT? I WOULD
HAVE BASICALLY DONE IS. YOU KNOW IF IT WAS ME I WOULD HAVE GONE TO HBO AND SAID HEY OK YOU’RE USING OUR LETTERS WITHOUT PERMISSION WHERE WE’RE GONNA GIVE YOU PERMISSION. AS LONG AS WE HAVE THE STIPULATIONS BUT ALSO WHAT WE
LIKE TO DO IS HAVE SOME SORT OF YORE KD OFESTINIAL THAT W WE HAVE ON HBO THAT PEOPLE CAN LEARN MOHR ABOUT THE ONE OF OUT COP PALS AND I THINK THAT’S YOU KNOW KIND OF A FROM A BRANDING STANDPOINT.
>> IT IS A POSITIVE IN WAY THEY’RE BEING DEPICTED FROM AN INSTITUTIONAL STANDPOINT I UNDERSTAND WHY A HAVE TO PROTECT THEMSELVES BUT I THINK THERE’S A KIND OF A MIDDLE GROUND AT SOME POINT IN TIME AND TAKE A IS SMART ENOUGH TO
FIGURE YOU KNOW FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE’S A WAY FOR YOU KNOW THE CREATIVE TO STILL GO ON AND AT THE EXACT >>ROTE THEMSELVES.. >> YOU AS A DIVINE NINE MEMBER KNOW HOW SACRED THESE ORGANIZATIONS ARE HOW PRECIOUS
THEY ARE TOO AT LEAST A SLICE OF OUR CULTURE AND OUR COMMUNITY. HOW DO YOU CREATE SPACE TO PROTECT YOUR STUFF. >> >> AND ALSO KEEP THE DOOR OPEN FOR PEOPLE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ORGANIZATIONS TO WANT TO BE A PART OF THE ORGANIZATION WHEN
PEOPLE WATCHED A DIFFERENT WORLD IN THE NINETIES THEY COULDN’T JOIN KAPPA LAMBDA NU BECAUSE IT WASN’T REALLY SO THEY WANT TO BECOME KAPPAS AND THEY COULDN’T BECOME KAPPAS. THEY BECOME OUT. >> AROUND THING AROUND WAS THE CULTURE. >> REPRESENTATION MATTERED
RIGHT I MEAN YOU TALK ABOUT MISSED OPPORTUNITIES ARE WE ALL MISSING AN OPPORTUNITY BY POLICING IS SO HEAVILY THAT PEOPLE BUILD GO. THAT’S JUST A BLACK BOOTY STUFF THAT THEY FIGHT OVER LIKE GANGS I I WORRY THAT THE HOLDING IT TOO. TIGHT
MAY ACTUALLY UNDERMINE OUR ABILITY TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE. I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENS IT. WAS JUST KIND OF A BAD LOOK. OFTENTIMES IS WHEN REGULAR MEMBERS BECOMES SO WHAT I CALL KIND KIND OF SUPER MEMBERS WHERE EVERYTHING IS A
HORRID AFFRONT TO YOUR ORGANIZATION AND YOU PROCLAIMED YOURSELVES THE ON LY GATEKEEPER TO EVERYTHING THAT IS SACRED WITHIN YOUR ORGANIZATION. AT SOME POINT OF TIMES I THINK WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE NEW ONES OFF THERE. WAS NO REAL REASON
TO JUMP ON A MAN AND GET ON HER FROM PORTRAYING YOU KNOW THE ORGANIZATION. BUT AT THE EXACT SAME TIME KIND OF. >> IF YOU LOOK A LITTLE BIT DEEPER YOU KNOW YOU KIND OF SPEAKS TO HBO AND PROTECT PERHAPS OF THE EDITING OR THE
POSTPRODUCTION BECAUSE EVERY FILM OR EVERY MOVIE THAT GOES THROUGH HBO HAS TO GO DO SOME SORT OF KIND. OF CLEARANCE ILLEGAL CLEARANCE OR NO YOU HAVE TO BLOW OUT. THIS PAINTING BECAUSE GOING ON THE RIGHTS TO IT AND THEN ACTUALLY MY SPEAK
TO THE FACT TO THE LACK OF DIVERSITY POSSIBLY AND ON IN TERMS OF POST PRODUCTION AT HBO WE’RE NO ONE RECOGNIZED IT BUT. >> THEN AGAIN THE EXACT SAME TIME THAT SPACE IS ONE OF ST. PLACES WHERE PEOPLE KIND OF COME TO FRATERNITIES AND
SORORITIES USUALLY WITH HALF INFORMATION AND THEY’RE GOING TO KIND OF BELIEVE WHATEVER THEY WANT TO BELIEVE BUT IT DOESN’T HELP US WHERE MEMBERS OF THE DIVINE NINE TOE ACTUALLY FEED INTO THAT INTO FEED INTO THAT SENSE. WHERE WHEN PEOPLE
SAY WELL IT’S NO BIG DEAL AND. THEN WE GO OFF ONTO YOU KNOW ELEVEN AND THEN GRAND YOU KNOW CREATE NO SENSE OF THE MIDDLE WHERE WE CAN SAY WELL IT MAY NOT BE A BIG DEAL YOU KNOW YOU TO ACTUALLY HAVE SOMETHINGTO
WHERE WE CAN PROTECT OURSELVES.. >> ABSOLUTELY THAT MAKES COMPLETE SENSE LAWRENCE THANK
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