Black August: A Celebration of Freedom Fighters
BY DOC HOLIDAY et al. Black August originated in the California penal system in the 1970s. Many significant events in the New African Nation’s struggle for justice and liberation have occurred in...
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BY MARILYN BUCK Would you hang on a cliff’s edge sword-sharp, slashing fingers while jackboot screws stomp heels on peeled-flesh bones and laugh “let go! die, damn you, die!” could you hang on 20...
View ArticleResistance: The Origin Of Black August
BY THE MALCOLM X GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT Originally posted on www.assatashakur.org Black August originated in the California penal system to honor fallen Freedom Fighters, Jonathan Jackson, George Jackson,...
View ArticleBlack August: A Celebration of Freedom Fighters
BY DOC HOLIDAY ET AL. Black August originated in the California penal system in the 1970s. Many significant events in the New African Nation’s struggle for justice and liberation have occurred in...
View ArticleOne Man’s Terrorist is Another Man’s Freedom Fighter
BY KAZI TOURE, former political prisoner I was asked by my comrade Jaan Laaman to put down a few lines about the events that led up to August 7, 1970, and in particular Jonathan Jackson, younger...
View ArticleDebts Owed: A Generational Perspective on a Time of Remembrance
BY AKILI CASTLIN [Editor’s note: Akili had to write this article without mentioning ‘Black August’ by name, because Pelican Bay State Prison erroneously considers any mention of George Jackson or...
View ArticleBlack August: A Celebration of Freedom Fighters
BY DOC HOLIDAY ET AL. Black August originated in the California penal system in the 1970s. Many significant events in the New African Nation’s struggle for justice and liberation have occurred in...
View ArticleBlack August: A Celebration of Freedom Fighters
BY DOC HOLIDAY ET AL. Black August originated in the California penal system in the 1970s. Many significant events in the New African Nation’s struggle for justice and liberation have occurred in...
View ArticleBlack August 2011: Editor’s Introduction
Black August is a celebration of Freedom Fighters, an affirmation and renewed commitment to the struggle, on every level, of New African – Black Liberation. It is a time to understand, remember and...
View ArticleGeorCommemorating the 42nd Anniversary of the Marin Courthouse Slave Rebellion
BY JONATHAN JACKSON, JR. From the Forward to Soledad Brother (1994) I was born eight and a half months after my father, Jonathan Jackson, was shot down on August 7, 1970, at the Marin County...
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