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What is the story of #BlackAugust? [1]

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Date: 2022-08-09

Good Tuesday morning, everyone.

Welcome to #BlackAugust!!

I chose this website for more clarity on #BlackAugust. Here’s an excerpt from the Center for Constitutional Rights.

Black August honors the freedom fighters, especially those inside the walls of our sprawling prison-industrial complex, who, with their vision, tenacity, and deep love for our communities, are leading us toward the horizon of abolition. This year, we celebrate the jailhouse lawyers, who protect and promote the rights of people incarcerated and have been the driving force behind key legal victories that have mitigated the power of the state to cause harm. As they work to secure freedom for all, jailhouse lawyers have improved prison conditions, intervened to stop mistreatment, and used the law to expose the inherent violence and racism of incarceration.

Here’s another excerpt from CNN about Black August.

"This month is a time to reflect and learn about the legacies of Black revolutionaries, while we rededicate ourselves to the protracted struggles against white supremacy, colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism. We study, plan, and pledge to continue twork and fight for Black liberation."

For me, it’s the honoring of those ancestors who wanted their humanity recognized and respected while they fought for our freedom, made legislation, marched fro voting rights, housing, worker rights, paricipated in sit-ins, protested for apartheid, and the like.

It’s the seeing me as a human being without the conditions to make you comfortable with me.

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