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.
For the most compelling evidence of the New World Order online please link to http://www.911blogger.com/node/10025 The New World Order is Here! What is the new world order? The essence of the new world order (nwo) or world management system is that it is management by social engineers, rather than government based on a written constitution. How you are affected by this management system depends on what the social engineers decide the system should do for you and require of you. the social... Read Full Story
This is highly recommended viewing for those people trying to understand how it is that the truth of certain events, like 9/11, can be so successfully spun into something completely different by the people who want to make it so. In this 8-part series Dr. William F. Pepper leads the co-publisher of Covert Action Quarterly, William Schaap, through a history of US Government Approved disinformation, beginning with examples in WWI and then WWII, when things really began to take off. The... Read Full Story
Looking to move on from the block-party atmosphere of old school rap and eager to vent their frustrations with the '80s version of the inner-city blues, a select few hip-hop groups merged deft rhymes with political philosophy to create a new style of Rap. Inspired by '70s political preachers from the Last Poets to Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy were the first and best of the political rap groups . Frontman Chuck D... twisted rhymes better than any other rapper to date, all the while taking to... Read Full Story
I found this great post on Focusedpurpose , a great site and a woman full of the creative power of the Universe! Thank you Focusedpurpose. Please view the documentary Eyes of the Rainbow Wednesday, April 2, 2008 happy belated birthday, Queen Assata I love and honor Queen Assata Shakur. her example both inspires and guides me. her letter needs no introduction. there is nothing at this leg in my journey that i can hope to add to her wisdom... happy birthday Queen. Letter from Assata Shakur... 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
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
"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
"Like most poor people in the United States, I have no voice. The Black press and the progressive media, as well as Black civil rights organizations, have historically played an essential role in the struggle for social justice. We should continue and expand that tradition. We should create media outlets that help to educate our people and our children, and not annihilate their minds. I am only one woman. I own no TV stations or radio stations or newspapers. But I believe that people need to... 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
