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.
TEXT F R O M T H E F O R E I G N P R E S S Havana. October 13, 2005 TEXT WRITTEN BY VICKY PELAEZ (Taken from El Diario-La Prensa, New York) HUMAN rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in the prison... Read Full Story
Link To RBG multi-media eZine : Text written by Walter Rodney , November 1971 To most readers in this continent, starved of authentic information by the imperialist news agencies, the name of George Jackson is either unfamiliar or just a name. The powers that be in the United States put forward the official version that George Jackson was a dangerous criminal kept in maximum security in Americas toughest jails and still capable of killing a guard at Soledad Prison. They say that he himself... Read Full Story
LINK TO FIRING LINE TELEVISION PROGRAM COLLECTION FOR VIDEO The Republic of New Afrika flag is that first used by Marcus Garvey . Q: What is the Republic of New Afrika (RNA)? A: In the late 1960s, at the height of the Black Power Movement, two acquaintances of Malcolm X, Gaidi Obadele and Imari Abubakari Obadele assembled a group of 500 militant black nationalists in Detroit, Michigan, to discuss the creation of a black nation within the United States. On March 31, 1968, 100 conference... Read Full Story
(Electric Chair at Sing Sing) Bryan Stevenson - Racism and the Death Penalty To Learn More on Racism and The Death Pentalty See: The Death Penalty in Black and White: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides by Richard C. Dieter, Esq. Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center June 1998 It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is... Read Full Story
Click here to turn on companion audio in another tab: "All right gentlemen, hold it right there, we is taking over!" Armed to the teeth, Jonathan Jackson, 17, George's, younger brother, had raided the Marin Courtroom and tossed guns to prisoners William Christmas and James McClain, who in turn invited Ruchell to join them. Ru seized the hour spontaneously as they attempted to escape by taking a judge, assistant district attorney and three jurors as hostages in that audacious move to... Read Full Story
From: An Innocent Man on Death Row in Georgia? British Journalist David Rose on the Case of Carlton Gary and the "Stocking Stranglings" In 1986 Gary was convicted and sentenced to death for three murders despite no physical evidence that tied him to the crimes. Last week a federal judge upheld his conviction despite new evidence that casts doubt on his conviction. David Rose examines Gary's case in his new book "The Big Eddy Club: The Stocking Stranglings and Southern Justice... Read Full Story
Committee for the Defense of Human Rights About CDHR | Legacy of Torture: The Video | Profiles Murder Charges Against Former Black Panthers Based on Confessions Extracted by Torture Eight former Black Panthers were arrested January 23rd in California, New York and Florida on charges related to the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police officer. Similar charges were thrown out after it was revealed that police used torture to extract confessions when some of these same men were arrested in... Read Full Story
Black Economic Power l Black Political Power l Revolution Education l Organizations l Hip-Hop l Black Women Black Men l Youth l Black History The Black Power Movement is a movement of individuals who are fed up with Racism, Injustice and White Supremacy and are willing to work within their respective communities to effect change. Some History of THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT : Companion Asset: 1960's Black Power Movement: Course Screen Shots Why did Northern Blacks begin to support Black Power... Read Full Story
