For our final Black August episode, we’re talking about what Black August means to us today, and what it can mean for us in the future.
The spirit of Black August is one that we keep alive through our actions, through protecting each other, teaching our history, staying connected to our kin behind bars, and continuing to fight for abolition. Black August is a celebration of the fierce love we have for each other, and what we are willing to do to free ourselves from the shackles of systemic oppression.
As the Trump administration rolls his tanks through Black cities, as Black immigrants are kidnapped from their families, as our history is being erased from schoolbooks, and whatever protections for our communities that our government pretended to have are stripped away, it is more vital than ever that we channel the spirit of Black August every day of every month.
How will you fight for Black Liberation? The answers to that question are what Black August is all about.
Below are the resources from compiled from our month of Black August episodes, along with information about this episode’s contributors.
FILMS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
The Black August Hip Hop Project, dir. dream hampton
Songs From The Hole, dir. Contessa Gayles | watch on Netflix
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
Political Prisoners and the fight for Black Liberation
Black Liberation Movement Prisoners
Death by incarceration: The US prison system is slowly killing its political prisoners
Free Them All! Political Prisoners and the Black Radical Tradition
Political Prisoners in the United States: An Organizing Handbook
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL ON TRUMP’S AMERICA: ‘ALL IS NOT WELL IN BABYLON’
A STATEMENT FROM FERGUSON POLITICAL PRISONER, JOSH WILLIAMS
America's protest crackdown: five months after George Floyd, hundreds face trials and prison
Cop Cities and the persecution of protestors
The quiet rollout of Cop Cities across the US meets a growing resistance
Atlanta’s Cop City Is Funded by Some of the Same Billionaires Who Back AIPAC
RICO and Domestic Terrorism Charges Against Cop City Activists Send a Chilling Message
Stop Cop City Activists Are Facing 20 Years in Prison for Distributing Flyers
Political Prisoners & Immigration Detention
I am a Palestinian political prisoner in the US. I am being targeted for my activism
'They wanted to separate me from my family': Mahmoud Khalil speaks after ICE release
Mohsen Mahdawi on His ICE Detention and Justice in Palestine
Why Lelo Juarez Chose Self-Deportation
Get Involved
Fighting Mass Detention & Deportation
This Episode’s Amazing Contributors
Gabriel Teodros: website | Instagram | Bandcamp | Substack
richie reseda: website | Instagram | Songs From The Hole
Where you can find more Until All Of Us Are Free
Ijeoma Oluo: website | Instagram | Behind the Book | Be A Revolution
Music by Gabriel Teodros
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