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.
Black Riders Liberation Party leaders locked up Center-Taco from Black Riders Liberation Party RBGz Black Riders Liberation Party VLog (Updates as the they feed) Three leading members of the Black Riders Liberation Party, General T.A.C.O. (Taking All Capitalists Out), Comrades Stress and Aryana Shakur, have been indicted and arrested on charges of a conspiracy to possess automatic weapons and attempted possession of a machine gun in a b.s. set-up and entrapment case. They are being held on... Read Full Story
"NO, WE HATE WHITE SUPREMACY/RACISM AND OPPRESSION AND EVERY PERSON, PLACE, THING AND SITUATION AFFILIATED AND ASSOCIATED WITH THEM" RBG Street Scholar doesn't hate America or white people. But we do hate its / their racist and oppressive practices when dealing with Afrikan / Black people and other people of color here and throughout the world. And though I love people here and have no desire to live elsewhere (for now), overstand that America is no utopia, and I believe concerned citizens... Read Full Story
Sean Bell Shooting Caught on Surveillance Film Early Saturday morning, five New York police officers fired 50 shots at a car carrying Sean Bell, who had just left his bachelors party on the eve of his wedding with two friends. On Monday Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the shooting of the unarmed men was "unacceptable" and "inexplicable. DN: Read More, Audio and Video Stream 50 Shots - Papoose In the late sixties, Jamil Al-Amin (a. k. a. H. Rap Brown) declared, "Violence is as American as cherry... Read Full Story
Mumia Abu-Jamal-- Whore Nation Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning
journalist, former President of the Philadelphia Association of Black
Journalists, and author of "Live From Death Row", "Death Blossoms",
"All Things Censored", “Faith of Our Fathers” and the recently released
“We Want Freedom”. A resident of Pennsylvania’s death row since 1982, new
evidence, including the recantation of a key eyewitness, new ballistic
and forensic evidence, judicial racial prejudice, and a confession from... Read Full Story
The three detectives in the Sean Bell murder were just acquitted. Here’s the NYT Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/nyregion/26BELL.html?_r=1&oref=slogin PEOPLES JUSTICE for Community Control and Police Accountability is calling for a rally and community speak-out in front of the Queens DA’s office - please see below for more information on this important event ________________________ Rally will include performers & speakers who have been directly affected by police brutality... Read Full Story
A Case for Reasonable Doubt? A Journalist / Cab Driver serving time on death row, a dead Police Officer and the city of Philadelphia. The documentary looks at both sides of the case, but lean towards one more than the other. In 1981, Mumia Abu Jamal was convicted for the murder of a white police officer in the city of Philadelphia. The officer's name is Daniel Faulkner. Jamal is now serving time on death row. He always claimed his innocence yet never offered an explanation/statement of what... 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
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
