RBG Street Scholars Think Tank's Purpose:
This Educational Program and Research Project is Dedicated to Further Building the Hip Hop--Black Liberation Movement Connection by Integrating Conscious Digital Edutainment with A Scholarly...
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RBG Street Scholars Think Tank's Purpose: This Educational Program and Research Project is Dedicated to Further Building the Hip Hop--Black Liberation Movement Connection by Integrating Conscious Digital Edutainment with A Scholarly Self Directed Learning Environment.
This Zine is Peoples guide to arguably the "Greatest Rap Music Group of All Times", PE. A Public Enemy guide with photos, videos, links, feeds, news, comments, group blog and forum. Also providing the latest news on our Freedom Fighters (PP and POW) as the PE logo represents.
Public Enemy, better known by fans as PE, is a seminal hip hop group from Long Island, New York known for their socio-politically conscious lyrics, criticism of mainstream /coporate media and active interest in the issues and concerns of the African American community. Their latest LP, a collection of unreleased tracks, "Beats and Places," was released on the 8th of November 2005.
They will be inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
They are ranked #44 on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list and in the near future, should be one of the first rap artists inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Help us document their history and journey with your photos, videos, links, feeds, news and comments. Share with the community in our PE group blog and discussion forums.
In the interest of being ture to the PE message and Logo this wikizine will also keep the community up to speed on those socio-political issues and topics their music so powerfully speaks to. This will and should include issues and current events involving the present day Black Power Movement and our Nu Afrikan Political Prisioners and Prisoners Of War.
"This book taught me a lot ... I highly recommend it for All Serious Brothers"/ rbgss The Soul Knows No Bars: Inmates Reflect on Life, Death, & Hope A Review by Joy James By Drew Leder and Cornel West Rowman & Littlefield 224 pages Currently, some 70 percent of the 2 million people in U.S. jails, prisons and detention centers are people of color; approximately 1 million are African American. With the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, the United States is one of the few... Read Full Story
A couple of people have ask me, "RBG what is going through your head when you are building RBG Street Scholars Think Tank ?--And I answer--honor & respect of the legacy of the scholars, revolutionaries and educators that have come before me, Liberation By Way Of Proper Education and telling the truth. ...Nonetheless, I remain cautiously optimistic about our fate as an Afrikan peoples based on what I see everyday...That's the reason I keep on fighting and we must keep fighting. Ward... Read Full Story
'T he War on Democracy' is John Pilger's first major film for the cinema - in a career that has produced more than 55 television documentaries. Set in Latin America and the US, it explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. "The film tells a universal story," says Pilger, "analysing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of the... Read Full Story
Link to Video and a biographical Sketch At RBG TUBE “I only came to the movement because of King and he was killed. I only stayed in the movement because of Malcolm and he was killed. Then I became a leader” – Chokwe Lumumba At the age of 60, Chokwe Lumumba is well into his fifth decade as an activist, attorney, and human rights advocate. He began civil rights activism in high school in the 1950s, and since 1968 he has included the language and principlesof international human rights in his... Read Full Story
Drop a Related Video / some music on top and enjoy your reading Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the death of one of the most influential figures of the last century -- Latin American revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara. On October 8, 1967, Che was captured by Bolivian troops working with the CIA. He was executed one day later. This is my contribution to our learning more from and about him in the context of our communiversity. * True story of Che Guevara /The film at my blogspot A... Read Full Story
Free the Jena 6 Now And down with white supremacy / racism by any means necessary. The More Things Change, The More Things Stay the Same The case of the Scottsboro Boys arose in Scottsboro, Alabama during the 1930s, when nine black youths, ranging in age from thirteen to seventeen, were accused of raping two white women, one of whom would later recant... Read More Click and Play / Read to better know why we don't play dat noose shit... The issue at the core of the Jena 6 case is that after... Read Full Story
The black revolutionary writer Frantz Fanon once asserted that, "each generation, out of relative obscurity, must discover its own destiny. Then it has a choice: It may fulfill that destiny or betray it. " A great place to begin your fulfillment is with RBG Tube. Speaking truth to power, RBG Tube is one of the many RBG Street Scholars Think Tank resources on the Web for peoples of Afrikan descent that desire real EduTainment. Enjoy and learn from lively discussions, videos, conscious music... Read Full Story
Trackback to my blogspot for "The murder on video" S omebody is lying A former Sheriff's deputy who blamed a Taser stun gun manufacturer in the death of Deacon Frederick Williams, a Gwinnett County inmate, amended his claim that the manufacturer's intentionally mislead law enforcement with their marketing and training tools. In the initial cross claim, lawyers for former Sheriff's deputy Michael Mustachio said Taser International misrepresented its product as being safe and used biased... Read Full Story
Mississippi has not been the bastion of overt racism I feared it might be before moving here. And yet, one can feel a sharp undercurrent of intense discomfort about race just beneath the surface. Race is the elephant in the room which most White Mississippians ignore. Even in the face of the Jena 6 case and other undeniable acts of racism, the virtual absence of local reactions are telling. One of the earliest lessons I learned about Mississippi was that there is only one subject that is... Read Full Story
