Company apologizes for 'Where you at?' billboards

Ad campaign: Black youths being exploited, some in community say.
A division of Nextel Communications has apologized if anyone has been insulted by its Boost Mobile billboards depicting a bug-eyed black male asking "Where you at?" The advertisements, scattered around Reno promoting a new cell phone designed for teens, have some complaining it exploits black youths, promotes non-standard English and resurrects an ethnic form of slavery. The billboards have been up in Reno for nearly three months and are scheduled to be removed by the end of the week, Colley said. [more]