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Wiki Education assignment: Black American Music[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 21 August 2023 and 18 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): SCup1330 (article contribs).

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Wiki Education assignment: Seeing Race[edit]

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I have expanded on this article for a class assignment and here is the link to it. User:Tonydavis05/sandbox 96.255.158.14 (talk) 18:56, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 21 March 2024[edit]

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Add new section pornography in the media section. In pornography, black men are stereotyped to be hypersexual and reduced to their sexual performance.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1740144523002127 193.187.88.198 (talk) 04:48, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: the source appears to be about Black people in general, i.e., it's not specific to African Americans. M.Bitton (talk) 16:40, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: per the above comment. Feel free to reopen the edit request if you disagree. M.Bitton (talk) 14:57, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]