Black August And The Sacred Resistance Of Black Women Political Prisoners

Black August And The Sacred Resistance Of Black Women Political Prisoners

Source: Bettmann / Getty Every year when Black August rolls around, the stories we pull from the archive tend to center on Black men’s experience while the distinct warfare waged against Black women political prisoners gets reduced to a quiet whisper, if mentioned at all.  I learned to tune my ears to those whispers early on in my academic career. My education in Black political activism began on the streets of North and West Philadelphia, not f…

What Is Black August To The Black Comrade

Benny Schaft, Workers World. “What I do feel is the urge to resist, resist and never stop resisting or even think of stopping my resistance until victory falls to me.” (“Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson,” 1970) These words, written by revolutionary George Jackson 56 years ago in 1970 while he was being held…