The 31 days of August hold a particular and special meaning you will not find in the celebrations that come with Juneteenth, Black History Month or Kwanzaa. For 43 years now since 1979, Black August commemorates and highlights political prisoners and their crucial role in the Black liberation/freedom struggle. Black August is directly tied to the Black prison movement that started in the San Quentin prison and through relentless organizing spread to other prisons as well as to the streets.

The story of Black August begins immediately behind the prison walls after Jonathan and George Jackson were killed in August 1970, and 1971 respectively, as well as W.L. Nolan (killed January 1970), James McClain, William Christmas (killed with George) and Khatari Gaulden (killed August 1st, 1978).

The post Black August Builds On Our Black Radical Traditions appeared first on PopularResistance.Org.

This post was originally published on PopularResistance.Org.

Print Share Comment Cite Upload Translate Updates

APA

Charles Brooks, Black Agenda Report. | radiofree.asia (2024-05-08T09:49:01+00:00) » Black August Builds On Our Black Radical Traditions. Retrieved from https://radiofree.asia/2022/08/12/black-august-builds-on-our-black-radical-traditions/.

MLA

" » Black August Builds On Our Black Radical Traditions." Charles Brooks, Black Agenda Report. | radiofree.asia - Friday August 12, 2022, https://radiofree.asia/2022/08/12/black-august-builds-on-our-black-radical-traditions/

HARVARD

Charles Brooks, Black Agenda Report. | radiofree.asia Friday August 12, 2022 » Black August Builds On Our Black Radical Traditions., viewed 2024-05-08T09:49:01+00:00,<https://radiofree.asia/2022/08/12/black-august-builds-on-our-black-radical-traditions/>

VANCOUVER

Charles Brooks, Black Agenda Report. | radiofree.asia - » Black August Builds On Our Black Radical Traditions. [Internet]. [Accessed 2024-05-08T09:49:01+00:00]. Available from: https://radiofree.asia/2022/08/12/black-august-builds-on-our-black-radical-traditions/

CHICAGO

" » Black August Builds On Our Black Radical Traditions." Charles Brooks, Black Agenda Report. | radiofree.asia - Accessed 2024-05-08T09:49:01+00:00. https://radiofree.asia/2022/08/12/black-august-builds-on-our-black-radical-traditions/

IEEE

" » Black August Builds On Our Black Radical Traditions." Charles Brooks, Black Agenda Report. | radiofree.asia [Online]. Available: https://radiofree.asia/2022/08/12/black-august-builds-on-our-black-radical-traditions/. [Accessed: 2024-05-08T09:49:01+00:00]

rf:citation

» Black August Builds On Our Black Radical Traditions | Charles Brooks, Black Agenda Report. | radiofree.asia | https://radiofree.asia/2022/08/12/black-august-builds-on-our-black-radical-traditions/ | 2024-05-08T09:49:01+00:00

To access this feature and upload your own media, you must Login or create an account.

Visual Text

Use this space to make a translated version of this post.

Add an image

Choose a Language Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Basque Bengali Bulgarian Catalan Cambodian Chinese (Mandarin) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Fiji Finnish French Georgian German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Korean Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Mongolian Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Quechua Romanian Russian Samoan Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Tatar Telugu Thai Tibetan Tonga Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Welsh Xhosa