COMING SOON

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COMING SOON

$34.99

The following description is based on a 4-week course. However, this rate is for one 90-minute class that will highlight the course’s key points. During the four-week experience, participants are guaranteed to be introduced to all of the content outlined below and will have access to additional resources and interactive activities.

If you would like to take the 4-week course please click the CLASS PACK SPECIAL and select this course.

1.   Our children are bombarded with millions of images. This society operates in the Freudian belief that everything must be about sex and aggression to the point that they say, “sex sells” and so does violence. With violent video games and movies, sexual lyrics in songs, rape scenes in middle school books, sexual harassment on the news, it is nearly impossible to shield our children from the bombardment of inappropriate images and concepts. This introduction course will equip families with the ability to critically analyze what is going into our minds.

2.    Students will learn the criteria for evaluating films that they will use immediately after class and for the rest of their lives. They will be able to understand how media influences behavior and not be easily manipulated.

3.    Students will examine and experience mental conditioning, auto-suggestion, subliminal messages, and other techniques of brainwashing. We will look at psychological experiments to control minds including the CIA program MK Ultra and CIA’s Operation Mockingbird.

4.    Students will investigate Edward Bernay’s public relations and Joseph Goebel’s Nazi propaganda. They will read excerpts from Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman and the Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander. Students will see how propaganda was used to manipulate the population in futuristic books like George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. They will learn the sick history of Walt Disney and how cartoons and other media that seem the most harmless, “just entertainment,” is really the most destructive to our minds.

5.  Students will learn the rules “Hollyweird” will not break when it comes to Black films and how we should break them all with our films. We will examine positive or proper propaganda like Sankofa, Besouro and the classic series that came out before its time starring Avery Brooks’ A Man Called Hawk.

6.    We will examine the history of media in America and how Black people were depicted, but also how we became newscasters and the role of Black newspapers in the 1900s. 

7.    Students will watch video clips and even examine their favorite films. We won’t strip the programs of their fun, but we will identify what the intentions of each scene are designed to do.

***Participants will be required to bring clips from their favorite shows to analyze. Participants must be fully involved. Watch numerous videos, complete readings, and make a plan of how they will create proper propaganda for our people.


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“It’s imperative that our children learn from people who resemble their aesthetic, and know our history and culture. T’Shango Mbilishaka has spent over a decade studying and implementing African centered pedagogy. A brilliant educator, dedicated to uplifting our community through history and engaging lessons, I had the pleasure of working with T’Shango on several educational programs. I have been in awe many years by his integrity, empathy, tenacity, passion, and thoughtfulness. These traits in conjunction with his ability of curating education programs to engage the family unit to shape nuanced solutions place him in a class of his own. A natural leader, social activist and artist, T’Shango believes that the best way to quickly foment change is by working at the grassroots level to impact the lives of those most in need of assistance through African centered education.”

-Falani Afrika

“Mwalimu T’Shango Mbilishaka is a rare breed among African Centered scholars and educators. His thoughts and actions are extensions of his love for our people and his strategies incorporate the wisdom of many ancestors and living giants including Barbara Sizemore, Amos Wilson, Asa Hilliard, Hannibal Afrik, Agyei Akoto and Marimba Ani to name a few. His work for the past decades has been focused on the total upliftment of the African family through his work at various educational institutions. He continues to be on a tireless search to focus our families’ attention on all of the elements of liberation of the mind, body and the spirit of our people. The fruits of his work have been made manifest through an enlightened variety of strategies to educate, to motivate and to inform our parents and our children simultaneously. Through the observation of the youth that he has touched and through testimonials of the parents of his students, it has been verified that his strategies and techniques continue to be fabulously transformative. His ongoing research interests are inclusive of Afrikan and oppressed people’s freedom struggles, family physical wellness and preparations in anticipation of difficult times.”

-Baba Jawara Hunter, Community Elder and Organizer

“Baba T’Shango Mbilishaka is a master teacher whose enthusiasm and commitment to the education and development of African children is total and complete. Baba T’Shango has learned at the feet of some of the greats- Hilliard, Akoto, Ani and Kambon, just to name a few. Now he is offering what he’s learned from our esteemed scholars and what he has learned from almost two decades as a classroom teacher, as his personal offering to the preparation of the next generations of African educators and scholars.”

Seba Sékou Oláyínká -Jegna of Ẹgbé̩ Ijọba


“T’SHANGO IS THE EDUCATOR THAT THE PAN AFRICAN WORLD DESERVES AND NEEDS!

With the spread of misinformation, political pandering and vapid symbolism, how and where can we show our children a clear path of understanding to their true relationship to culture and the global politic? Our children, our families and our people need clarity, integrity and a focused commitment to improving our condition. With the correct political education and an understanding in the value of our culture and history, we can take the right action to serve our interests rather than work against our interests. That is the selfish love I have seen in the courageous work from educator, writer, speaker and master teacher, T’Shango Mbilishaka. The forward, visionary thinking that the sons and daughters of Africa need is what I’ve witnessed in his classroom, in is office during his office hours, in his output and results of his students. As a colleague, I have seen T’Shango sit with students at his feet yearning for political education to empower themselves. I have seen him share African proverbs, anecdotes from his journey and quote the teachings of Malcolm X, Fanny Lou Hamer, Marcus Garvey, and Ella Baker. I do not know a more well-read scholar on Black (African Diasporan) culture, history, and politics. As a leading scholar and general in the journey of independence for the African Diaspora, I see T’Shango’s work on par with the great Asa Hilliard, Runoko Rashidi, Booker T. Coleman, and the legendary historian John Henrik Clarke. He is carrying the torch of these scholars and doing the work to connect the children of the diaspora with the continent of Africa. Decolonizing one’s mind is a process that needs the guidance of an informed and compassionate leader. Educator T’Shango Mbilishaka is that guide that the African world needs and deserves.”

-Edward Hegerman, Teacher