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RBG Memories of Home, Teachers and Luv: History Is a Weapon

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A Tribute to my first Political Science and Cultural

Orientation Teacher, Dr. Amiri Baraka-“The Poet that Drove
the 1960s/70s Cultural Revolution”.
As I am a native of Newark, N.J., Dr. Baraka was one of my first
and most influential Leaders and Teachers: I attended his
school (The NewArk School) and was a member of his Cultural
Nationalist Organization (Kawaida) as a young child of 15.
Well known to be the "Most Important Living Black Poet" every
since the 1960s", Dr. Baraka is the engine behind "my
revolutionary computer art and scholastic pursuits".

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OPEN PLAYLIST

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The 1967 Newark Rebellion was a major civil disturbance

that occurred in the city of Newark, New Jersey between
July 12 and July 17 1967. Although referred to in the
popular media as riots, we in the Black community, then
and today, realize the event as a genuine rebellion against
oppression. I was only 9 year old at the time so I really
didn't know what was going on. However, I can still see the
Troops driving through my neighborhood, not being able to
go to the store or leave the back yard and having to be in
the house at 6:00pm. I also remember my parents talking
about how they would have the Black National Guard out
with the White ones only during the day. At night it was only
the White ones, shottin up the projects.

I was living on 6th Street and South Orange Avenue; with my

mother, father and 2 brothers and 3 sisters. I was the oldest at
12. My area was a part of the heart the happenings. As I got old
enough to learn what happen I found out that in the period
leading up to the rebellion, several factors led our residents to
feel powerless and disenfranchised. In particular we had been
largely excluded from any say in city politics and completely
lacked political representation and often suffered police
brutality. Furthermore, unemployment, abject poverty, and
concerns about low-quality housing contributed to the tinder-box. Yes, we lived in an
attic apartment, my dad was a day laborer and mom wasn't working, I had 6 younger
brothers and sisters and we all slept in the same room...but what the hell did I know

This ongoing oppression came to a head

when a Black cab driver named John
Smith was arrested for illegally passing a
double-parked police car and brutally
beaten by police who accused him of
resisting arrest. A crowd gathered outside
the police station where he was detained,
and a rumor was started that he had
been killed while in police custody.
(Actually he had been moved to City
Hospital.)

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This set off six days of burning, looting, violence, and

destruction — ultimately leaving 23 Black people
dead, 725 people injured, and close to 1,500 arrested.
Property damage exceeded $10 million. For about two
weeks we were living under Marshall Law, every
evening at 6 p.m. the Bridge Street and Jackson
Street Bridges (both of which span the Passaic River
between Newark and Harrison) were closed until the
next morning.

1967, Life Magazine. Billy Furr loots a case of soda

a few minutes before he was shot and killed by
Newark, N.J. police

The rebellion is often cited in the white media as a

major factor in the decline of Newark and its
neighboring white communities, as many of the city's
white residents immediately fled to the suburbs.
However, it was only after the rebellion that political
inclusion and representation of the Black community
became manifest and Black Power began to spring
forth from Newark. The 1967 Plainfield Rebellion
occurred during the same period in Plainfield, New
Jersey, a town about 18 miles southwest of Newark.

For Further Research and Study:

http://www.67riots.rutgers.edu/

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Play 10. Food, Clothes &

Shelta Pt. 2/dpz

RBGz Revolutionary Symbloism ReBirth of A Hip Hop Nation

15 photos - A Reflection of the Unity 14 photos - Consciousness Means

in the Community: We Must Raptivist
continue the struggle!!!

RBG Family NewArk

14 photos - RBG4Lif Pitbull Farm 20 photos - Cray/Johnson Family

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RBG Core Curriculum Professors RBG 4 Life

15 photos - Study With Master 15 photos - Core Curriculum Snap

Teachers Shots

RBG NBO FTP RBG-NBPP Sean Bell Trib

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OUTLAWZ f Young Noble RBGz Blending In Nature

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The Cray Family 2009 RBG Multi-media eZine

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MARC IMHOTEP CRAY, M.D.

(bna RBG Street Scholar) / MAR 2010