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The New Millennium: Countdown to 2000
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    Audience Research

    Music Picks for the Millennium:
    4 hero, Two Pages; Esthero, Breath from Another; A Tribe Called Quest, First Album; Public Enemy, Welcome to the Terrordome; Don Blackmon, Blackmon; Omar, Music; Blackbyrd, Donald Byrd; Roy Ayers & Fela Kuti, 2000 Black; Wu Tang Clan, Enter the 36 Chambers; The Crusaders, Live in London; Quincy Jones, Sounds....and stuff like that!; George Clinton; Marvin Gaye; Donnie Hathaway; Stevie Wonder.

    Movie Picks:
    Sankofa - Haile Gerima, Malcolm X - Spike Lee, Carmen Jones, The Matrix, Contact, A Raisin in the Sun (B&W version)

    Book Picks:
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X, This Bitch of a life: Autobiography of Fela Kuti, Divided Soul: Autobiography of Marvin Gaye, Black Bourgeois, Mis-Education of the Negro, by Carter G. Woodson

    What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the century?
    The discovery of the microchip.

    What, in your opinion, was the defining moment or event of the millennium?
    Sending convicts and outcasts to the new world eventually brings about the United States.

    Where would you like to be when the ball drops?
    Alive and happy!

    Thought or idea you would like to see brought into the new millennium:
    I want black people to be free!!

    Thought or idea you would like to see left behind:
    All the Bull****!!!


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