NEW YORK, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- On Sunday, June 17, 2007, BET News will premiere a thought-provoking special, BLACK MEN: THE TRUTH. This one-hour program brings you candid conversations about the many frustrations of being Black and male in America. Chris Webber, Steve Harvey, Tyler Perry, Allan Houston, Idris Alba, Presidential Candidate Barack Obama and many others hold nothing back as they share their intimate feelings on a variety of issues, important to Black men. Join BET News as they once again tackle provocative subject matter -- Sunday, June 17, 2007 at Noon/ET, immediately following MEET THE FAITH.

BLACK MEN: THE TRUTH challenges many of the negative myths, assumptions and ideas that have been linked to Black males. For example, "Are there more black males in jail than in college?" or "Are African American women contracting HIV at an increasing rate because of down-low brothers?" BLACK MEN: THE TRUTH gets to the bottom of many of these myths and dispels them. Additional controversial topics discussed include; "Perceptions of Black women", "Interracial relationships", "Black Masculinity", "When do you
become a man?", "Education and Black boys", "Black male homosexuality" and a variety of tough topics that society is afraid to address.

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