This month we’ll be putting out a series of smaller posts on Black August, a very special month for Black liberation and collective liberation.
If you aren’t really familiar with Black August, don’t be ashamed! We’re glad you’re here to learn more. The revolutionary history and nature of Black August is one that often erased from most schools and from mainstream media. But Black August has always been about working outside of these systems to empower and educate ourselves.
We’re starting this month with a brief history of Black August. So if you aren’t familiar with it’s history, be sure to check it out. And over the next few weeks, we’ll be looking at what Black August means today, who our current political prisoners are, and what the fight to free all of us looks like when we center those impacted by the Prison Industrial Complex.
If you want to learn more about Black August, here are some great resources to get started with.
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson, by George Jackson
Blood In My Eye, by George Jackson
Study, fast, train, fight: The roots of Black August
Black August: A Celebration of Freedom Fighters
Assata: An Autobiography, by Assata Shakur
Live from Death Row, by Mumia Abu-Jamal
To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton, by Huey Newton
Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America, by Kwame Ture and Charles V. Hamilton
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther, by Jeffrey Haas
Revolutionary Suicide, by Huey P. Newton
The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America, by Marc Lamont Hill
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
Agents of Repression: The Fbi's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, by Ward Churchill and James Vander Wall
Where you can find more Until All Of Us Are Free
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