List Serve

I need your help. I started putting together a list of the artists,
musicians, photographers, filmmakers, actors, who share our
vision for the "non profit".

The working rule that I used is that these are artists who, take
intellectual risks, can use our support and share our vision of
diverse representations of African Americans in entertainment.
(If you can help me clean that sentence up a bit, please do. It
seems a bit clunky).

Men (music)
De La Soul
Dwele
Lupe Fiasco
Little Brother
Mos Def
Nas
Jay Electronica
Jazzy Jeff
The Roots
Talib Kweli


Women (Music)
Amel
Black Lily Foundation
Chrisette Michelle
Erykah Badu
Floetry
Jill Scott
M.I.A
Santo Gold

Groups
J Davey

Photographers
Carrie Mae Weems
Gordon Parks

Filmmakers
Gina Prince-Bythewood- Love and Basketball
Christopher Scott Cherot- Have Plenty
Saana Hamri- Something New
Leslie Harris- Just Another Girl on the IRT
Spike Lee- Do the Right Thing
Kasi Lemons - Eves Bayou
Sterling Macer Junior- Park Day
Vanessa Middleton- 30 Years to Life
Cauleen Smith- Drylongso

Organizations
The Brooklyn Young Mothers Collective
The Center for Young Womens Development
Center on Criminal and Juvenile Justice
The Door
Prop 36.org
Rap Coalition
Sustainable South Bronx
Sisters in Cinema


Policies that Affect Black Families Disproportionaly
(Working List of Policies that we will lobby against)
Gun Free Schools Act of 1994
The Rockefeller Drug Act
3 Strikes
Mandatory Minimums (Crack Sentencing)

Please add on in the comments, along with their respective category.

Another question. I am thinking of building into the website, a location
where moms/dads can share solutions they have found, related to parenting
(dealing with the court, dealing with child's teachers, learning disabilities,
discipline, budgenting, dealing with the police).
If you are a parent and a reader, what would encourage/discourage
you from using such a forum?