ABOUT MDR
Mother’s Day Radio is an ever expanding coalition of individuals, youth agencies, women’s groups, schools, churches, community organizations, and businesses who share the vision of elevating the images of women in music.
Our goal is to organize and implement successfully a call to action that results in a day of rest and uplift for women on radio. This day of rest and uplift is known as Mother’s Day Radio and kicked off on the weekend of Mother’s Day 2007.
MDR Objectives
- To secure one day of radio that plays no songs containing lyrics that emphasize the body parts and sexual attributes and activities of women. To secure one day of radio that plays songs containing lyrics that highlight and recognize the strength, honor, value and wisdom of the mothers, daughters, sisters—the women—of society. To secure the creation, marketing and distribution of a “Mother’s Day Album†that is a collaboration of national recording artists singing music that uplifts women by honoring the strength, honor, value and wisdom of women. To organize the youth across the country as leaders in the movement for Mother’s Day Radio. To rally together women in solidarity to support Mother’s Day Radio.
What this is all about:
- There have been many debates on the state of Hip-Hop culture, rap music lyrics, the integrity of the music, where it comes from and how it depicts elements of Black and 'urban' life. This is NOT one of those debates.
- There have been outright verbal attacks on Hip-Hop culture and the artists and their lack of social responsibility. This is NOT one of those attacks.
- This is not a question of the validity of requesting that a human being's worth be espoused within a form of entertainment that may or may not be controlled by the artists themselves.
- This IS a CALL TO ACTION by women, youth and the men we love to make clear how we want women to be represented in Hip-Hop culture and to implement a strategic plan for attaining it. This is an action of cooperation with artists, providing them with an opportunity for the creative self-expression of love, worth and value in their particular medium.