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

-- Encore Presentation of all Three Explosive Episodes to Air Sunday, July 6 Beginning at 8:00 P.M.*

NEW YORK, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- This upcoming Saturday night -- grab your girls for a night of stimulating conversation as 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. Are we doing enough for our young women? Are we creating positive role models for them to look up to? 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.*.

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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.

For up-to-the-minute and archival press information including releases and photographs, visit BET's press-only Web site at www.bet.com/pr. Critically acclaimed authors, preachers and rappers continue the conversation about hip hop and the role it plays in characterizing women in the industry; we encourage viewers to visit BET.com's blog devoted exclusively to the topics addressed in the series, http://blogs.bet.com/music/hhvsa/ .

   *All times ET/PT    About BET Networks  

BET Networks, a division of Viacom Inc. (NYSE:VIA) (NYSE:VIA.B) , is the nation's leading provider of quality entertainment, music, news and public affairs television programming for the African-American audience. The primary BET channel reaches more than 87 million households according to Nielsen Media Research, and can be seen in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean. BET is the dominant African-American consumer brand with a diverse group of business extensions: BET.com, a leading internet destination for Black entertainment, music, culture, and news; BET Digital Networks -- BET J, BET Gospel and BET Hip Hop, attractive alternatives for cutting-edge entertainment tastes; BET Event Productions, a full-scale event management and production company; BET Home Entertainment, a collection of BET-branded offerings for the home environment including DVDs and video-on-demand; BET Mobile, which provides ring tones, games and video content for wireless devices; and BET International, an extension of BET network programming for global distribution.

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