RBG Street Scholar

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Martin Malcolm and America A Dream or A Nightmare - RBGStreet Scholar

Game Plan (First Installment) by Completion

RBG Street Scholar — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:20:30 -0000

What They Never Told You In His-Story Class by The Unknown Brother

RBG Street Scholar — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:20:58 -0000

We're On Our Way (Ft. Darien Brockington) by Completion

RBG Street Scholar — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:21:50 -0000

Acknowledgement (Intro) by Completion

RBG Street Scholar — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:23:53 -0000

RBG On Web 2.0 Education & Social Networking

RBG Street Scholar — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:42:29 -0000

The purpose of this brief guide is to help the learner/teacher overstand what one should look for in reading, listening to, viewing and critically analyzing the audio, video, pictorial and textural contents of RBG's curricula. We mean for you to pay particular attention to the interaction between images, lyrics, rhythms and spoken word.

In keeping with the spirit of Sankofa ("return and get it" a West African Symbol of Adinkra Wisdom
representing the importance of our learning from the past) you should keep in mind that in the societies of our Afrikan ancestors and current kinsman the oral tradition was / is the method of choice in which history, stories, folktales and spiritual beliefs were /are passed on from generation to generation. Webster's dictionary defines "oral" as,
"spoken rather than written," and it defines the word "tradition" as, "transmittal of elements of a culture from one generation to another especially by oral communication." It is the power of the Afrikan oral tradition integrated with written documentation that lays at the core of our trailblazing teaching / learning methodology.

Your studies, analysis and evaluations should constantly ask and answer “what a given classroom / subject / topic’s content is intending to elucidate (explain) — (ie. elements and aspects of oppression or liberation); and always why and how. RBG Street Scholars Think Tank is essentially a concentricly integrated articulation of and defense for a radically progressive New Afrikan educational process. With strict attention to developing our student’s basic education skills in the context of the highest standards of academic excellence, suitable for one to confidently sit for high stake exams, we simultaneously advance the psycho-emotional healing and spiritual upliftment of our people by providing knowledge, wisdom and overstanding of the historo-cultural, socio-political and psycho-educational experiences of Africans in America in a way that
radically reappraises education from the pained and angry perspective of the oppressed black community.

The content and methods of our school are meant to demonstrates how the mediums of Afrikan American music, spoken word and images have been/ are used to create incarcerated minds, bodies and spirits; and thus in turn, how they can as well be used to foster physical, mental and spiritual liberation.

Historically (particularly over the past 20 years) mainstream educators have resisted a critical analysis of urban music and culture in the form of hip-hop/rap from an Afrikan centered academic perspective, not realizing the significant positive impact this genre of music can have on the Afrikan worldview and Afrikan peoples views of the world.

However, popular music and images are made by someone (corporate profiteers, with two ends in view—the propagation of white supremacy / black oppression and money). Thus, we contend that rap music/hip-hop culture can be offered in such a way that it EduTains -analyzing racism, capitalism, sexism and other manifestations of national

oppression- as well as be enjoyed as entertainment. One of the communiversity's main goals is for the learner to formulate a sophisticated socio-political and historo-cultural “over-standing” of the present condition of the masses of our people and the poor-at home and abroad. Thus, you will be equipped with a cultural orientation suited for further Afrikan-centered socialization. We believe that such an academic pursuit is vitally necessary because the Eurocentric education /acculturation process, that we most frequently pursue in America for a job, more frequently than not poisons our individual and collective aspirations of national liberation and self determination as

an Arikan people.

Historically

poetry/ rap, literature and music have been combined to play a pivotal role in black progress and power in the Americas. It all goes back to the power and central role of the Afrikan oral tradition. For example, our ancestors communicated with drums. “Because of the perceived potential of the talking drum to "speak" in a tongue unknown to slave traders and thus to incite rebellion, revolt, resistance and revolution, in 1838 these and other drums were banned from use by African in the United States.

RBG Street Scholars Think Tank intends to serve as a premier

“New-Age Talking Drum”.

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There are several main reasons for the school’s audio-visual (Radio and TV driven) primacy:

We believe that the ultimate end of intellectual growth and development for students of Afrikan decent in 21st America is, first and foremost, a deeper overstanding and a fuller appreciation of Afrikan peoples continuing struggle for individual and collective liberation. Reading, thinking, looking and listening with close attention to the curricula’s scholastic guidance you learn to see more, understand more and uncover more, thus preparing for a richer, more selfless and more meaningful contributions to self and kind.

as music and videos use artful combinations of language and images, the essential processes of meaning-making, to formulate ideas in the minds of the participants, critical analysis can lead to a more astute and powerful use of Black music and images (espically that of the hip-hop / rap music genre ) as tools of Africentric cultural development and leadership training.

critical analysis of RBG’s audio-visual content and methods very efficiently teaches us to be aware of the cultural delineations of popular / white corporate media, including its ideological elements and psyops motivations.

, please remember, education is not eternal and timelessly written in stone, but should be situated historically, socially, intellectually, written and read at particular times, with particular intents, under particular historical conditions, with particular cultural, personal,

gender, racial, class and other perspectives at center. Through RBG multimedia learning the student / teacher will appreciate how ideology influences culture and culture guides ideology in real time.

We think this new style of learning / teaching is of particular timely in an age where so many of us, sad to say, don't read, but use popular media as a sole source of information. RBG Street Scholars Think Tank is a New Age counterforce.

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"Why You Need To Subscribe To RBG Tube"

RBG Street Scholar — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:55:02 -0000

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/spoken word and powerful digital art, photos and images.

It is unquestionably the baddest Multi-media Forum & EduTainment Center online. Based on the principles of Maat and Nguzo Saba, RBG Tube
is a one-stop-shop for education, consciousness raising, entertainment
and liberation. And the nicest thing about it is that you can become a
contributor. Just join the forum, it's free.

RBG Tube
is designed to facilitate your overall understanding and linkage to the
many assets of our communiversity and is resource for scholarly
research, build together and learning about any subject / topic related
to what we must be about: Namely, the "Africentric Idea of
Education" let's take the learner from G.E.D. to Ph.D in the
contemporary liberal arts and sciences;

Areas covered including:

> computers & information technology,

> history and cultural development,

> religion and spirituality,

> sociology,

> political science,

> creative productions/ entertainment,

> education,

> health promotion and disease prevention

> economics and

> psychology

A one stop shop using all forms of media to interactively showcase our
ideas of relevant education, unification, collectivity and self
definition.

RBG Tube is a part of Assata Speaks - Hands Off Assata - Let's Get Free - Revolutionary - Pan-Africanism - Black On Purpose - Liberation - Forum

"Join today and tell em RBG Street Scholar sent cha"

OVERALL GOALS OF THE COLLEGE:

1. To familiarize and expose
learners to a wide variety of 19th and 20th century African-American
leaders and our rich history of struggles for human and civil right,
national liberation and self determination.

2.
To expose learners to a Concentrically Integrated African-Centered
Liberal Arts Curriculum--including, online mini-lectures, commentaries
and interviews from our authors, playwrights, poets, activist and
scholars--that will enable large amounts of information to be
comprehended in a relatively short period of time.

3.
To continue the development of an appreciation of Afrikan-Centered
Education propagated through the Afrikan oral & musical traditions;
including Afrikan Drums, Spoken Word / Rap, R & B, Blues, Jazz and
Reggae.

4.
To draw lessons from the rich legacy of struggle and resistance to
oppression within the African American community through critical
analysis of videos, photo-stories, multimedia essays and PowerPoint
shows and scholarly charts, tables, graphs and PDF documents; thus
fostering socio-political activism in the learners own lives.

5.
To develop, encourage and diversify strategies for learning about and
responding to social, political, cultural and moral issues impacting
Afrikans in America, thus increasing comprehension and interpretation
skills.

6.
To synthesize serious community issues using multi-faceted content and
learning objects which represent the perspective of those who are in an
American minority group; and apply said principles and generalizations
in investigation of societal issues and problems from an
Afrikan-Centered perspective.

7.
Finally and most importantly, to teach and learn from aspiring and
seasoned teachers within a sophisticated SDL (Self Directed
Learning)--e classes environment how to become more effective teachers,
leaders and activist. We sharpen academic professionals and community
educators / street scholars skills in the areas of public speaking,
reading and writing critically and designing captivating presentation
suitable for both whole-group and small-group settings. In other words,
this is where the tutors (RBG Street Scholar) and other facilitators
teach you how to become inspirer and healer of our people. Not only do
we develop your skills, but we also provides you with the content to do
you thang. You will even learn how to modify the content provided such
that it becomes a new derivative product all you own; to do what you
will, ie. teach from it, barter it etc.

Please keep in mind that RBG is a Think Tank. A
center of higher learning organized for intensive study, research and
problem solving, focused in the areas of the use of technology in
Afrikan-centered cultural development and education, social, political
and economic strategy.

More
frequently than not, we initiate our teaching / learning process by
presenting audio and visual resources that pose semalies, parables,
metaphors, analogies and oxymorons--that's what makes you think (we
hope). Then we have lively and well informed group discussions
revolving around the various messages put forth in the learning objects
and media assets. Next we research the facts overlaying our discussions
using the voluminous number of resources available in the
communiversity's web portals and learning environments. Finally, each
learner has the opportunity to fill our evaluation instruments on most
of the 5,000+ RLOs (Reusable Learning Objects) and media assets that
comprise the core curriculum. It is out of following this methodology
that we devise position papers and community policy recommendations and
initiatives...

Enjoy you journey and let us know what you think.

WHO IS RBG STREET SCHOLAR:

He
is Marc Imhotep Cray, a Physician (UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School),
Pharmacy School trained Pharmacologist / Analytical Chemist, Addiction
Medicine Specialist, Basic Medical Sciences (BMS) & Black Studies
Master Teacher, Medical Infomatics Expert, Webmaster, Medical &
Afrikan-Centered Education Researcher and RBG Street Scholar in
Evolution.

·He is formerly Director of Office of Medical Education American International School of Medicine-Georgetown, Guyana.

·Formerly
Associate Professor of Basic Medical Sciences and Campus Curriculum
Coordinator International University of Health Sciences-School of
Medicine-Saint Kitts, West Indies (only PBL Medical School in the
Caribbean)

·Dr. Cray is an Expert PBL and Case-Based Learning Tutor/Facilitator

·He
has a unique integrated fund of knowledge and eloquence in the seven
traditional BMS with USMLE Step 1 level proficiency in the “4
P’s”-Physiology, Pathophysiology, Pathology and Pharmacology

·Dr.
Cray established the only BMS Curriculum Driven Introduction to
Clinical Medicine-Clinical Skills Center (ICM-CSC) in the West Indies

·Dr. Cray is an experienced Medical Web Developer, e-Professor/Online Lecturer

·He is an author of several e-articles, e-books and e-magazines (e-Zine), USMLE Tagged Virtual Medical School Courseware and RBG Street Scholars Think Tank.

RBG4Lif

HIP HOP JUST WENT ACADEMIC: RBG STYLE

RBG Street Scholar — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:48:06 -0000

Visit RBG Worldwide 1 Nation
Tha first exclusive New Afrikan Social Network on the Web.
Dedicated to the Greatness of Our Elders and Ancestors.
A place for hip hop artists, poets, scholars, activists and
family to share their talents, skills, news and works with one another.

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.

Never Forget This Video Brothers and Sisters

RBG Street Scholar Launches Black Tube:
"A Consciousness Raising VLog "

It's Light, Fast, Smart, Sharp and Black to the Future

"Mass media have played and will continue to play a crucial role in the way white Americans perceive African-Americans. As a result of the overwhelming media focus on crime, drug use, gang violence, and other forms of anti-social behavior among African-Americans, the media have fostered a distorted and pernicious public perception of African-Americans".
The Yale Political Quarterly / Read More

We offer this edutaining video driven learning environment as a counter to mass media distortions and "white lies". Here's a 40 video demo. Click the banner for the full version.

Updates to playlist: Paris/aka P-Dog Da Bush Killa

RBG Street Scholar — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:53:50 -0000

At RBG Street Scholars Think Tank Education = Training/Skills + Knowledge of Self

RBG Street Scholar — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:38:02 -0000

We Are A Scholarly Revolutionary Higher Education Environment, Presented Using An Interactive Edutaining Teaching Methodology. Every Media Asset is a Learning Object:

Study Guides and Strategies

RBG Street Scholars Think Tank Rules Of Engagement, Featuring NBO: "Say It Loud"

RBG Street Scholar Core Curriculum Videos @ Veoh.com

RBG Street Scholars Video JukeBox @ DailyMotion

RBG Street Scholar Say's " I Have A Dream Too: Our Own Govornment"

RBG DEFINED:
No matter if one relates R.B.G. with
Red Black and Green,
Revolutionary But Gangstas,
Redeemed By God,
Read Bout Garvey,
Revolutionary Black Gangstas,
Real Black Girls,
Ready 2 Bust Gats or
Riders Basic Guidelines, etc
We must know that the principles and guidelines were passed down from great leaders like Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and Huey P. Newton. They must know that the RBG Family consists of real leaders that will forever ride for our Black and Brown People worldwide.

Socio-Educational Networking based on the Afrikan Concept of "I Am Because We Are and Because We Are Therefore I Am"