TONY COX, host: From NPR News, this is NEWS & NOTES. I'm Tony Cox in for Farai Chideya who is away this week.</s>TONY COX, host: Happy Monday, everybody. We thought we'd get the week started right with a good show for you today. In just a minute, we'll talk dollars and cents with a good friend of NEWS & NOTES, Julianne Malveaux. And later, we continue our monthlong series on hip-hop with a look at violence in music. We'll talk to rapper icon Master P in studio about why he suddenly changed his tunes.</s>TONY COX, host: But first, it's time for a few headlines. Today, we start on the frontlines in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to a story today from The Associated Press, black military enlistment has taken a nosedive. Compared to 2001, nearly 40 percent fewer African-Americans signed on the dotted line last year. That number includes both active duty and reserve recruits. The Army's hardest hit, blacks make up - made up 23 percent of recruits in 2000 that number down now to a modest 12 percent. Experts are at a lost as to why exactly African-Americans are no longer enlisting, but they say the drop has been padded in part by a hike in other minority sign-ups especially among Hispanics.</s>TONY COX, host: Our second headline takes us to Malibu, California, where rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight has put his seven-bedroom mansion on the auction block. The sale comes after Knight filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. For those of you who do not know Knight, he founded Death Row Records, a driving force behind rap's increasingly violent image. Later in the show, we'll be taking a closer look at that image and whether or not violent music tells the truth of street life or creates its own violent truth.
Tony Cox runs through the day's headlines, including news that African-American military enlistment is down nearly 40 percent and that rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight has put his Malibu mansion up for sale as part of a wide-ranging bankruptcy settlement.