August is already #BlackAugust honoring Black freedom fighters, political prisoners, and the history of resistance against systemic racism and state violence, but yes..
ALL👏🏿OF👏🏿 THIS👏🏿 #BlackHistoryYear
⭐️ Celebrating #BlackFuturesMonth and #BlackAugust to honor the Black Liberation Movement and imagine a world rooted in healing, liberation, and radical Black love.
Black August was a time of restoration for our team. ✨ iF staff and leadership spent the month in Martha’s Vineyard, surrounded by Black leaders and visionaries across business, tech, media, philanthropy, and more. 🖤 #BlackAugust
OG Monifa Bandele talking abt Assata Shakur and Nehanda Abiodun www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbJ8... #PoliticalPrisoners #MalcolmXGrassrootsMovement #FreedomFighters #BlackAugust
🖤 From #OutspokenWithRegina: @harrietcarried.bsky.social reflects on how she uses her skills to uplift Black communities and reminds us that advancing #ReproductiveJustice requires everyone tapping into their own strengths.
#BlackRJ #BlackAugust
📅 On This Day – Sept 9, 2016
Incarcerated people in over 20 states launched the largest prison strike in U.S. history—refusing to work and demanding an end to prison slavery.
They chose this date to honor the 1971 Attica uprising.
#OTD #PrisonStrike #AtticaUprising #13thAmendment #BlackAugust
On Jacksonville, Black August…
#august28th #m_e_nash #mke #credit_m_e_n #poetry #Racism #BlackAugust #Reparations
Just a few jewels I thought I would share.
Remember to:
Study Train and Fast
#BlackAugust
I'm at a Black August event. 😁
I probably should've worn grey instead of this strawberry shirt. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'll still have fun. 😁
#BlackAugust
On this final day of #BlackAugust, August 31st is also the International Day for People of African Descent.
Slaps for the last day of #BlackAugust *bounces on a yoga 🧘🏾♀️ ball*
WhewHoo! #BlackAugust in effect
Katrina Anniversary and Michael Jackson birthday in the same week? I guess it really is #BlackAugust
#GeorgeJackson’s 1971 critiques of prison, capitalism, and state violence read like they were written yesterday.
Because the systems he fought are still operating.
We break down why Jackson's analysis matters in 2025 🎧 #TeachTheBabies #podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
#BlackAugust
Video Episode 6 of the Critical Mass podcast is now on YouTube! Hear from California Assemblymember Bryan. We discussed redistricting, demographic shifts, education, and Assembly Bill 7's broader impacts.
buff.ly/Spus5bV
#BlackAugust #ADOS #ADOSAF #Education #BlackAmericans
Life. Study. Revolution. w/ Dr. Charisse( @drcbs.bsky.social )Burden-Stelly & Dr. Layla( @panafrikfemphd.bsky.social )D. Brown "L.S.R. Special: #BlackAugust 2025 ft. Jacquie( @luqmannation.bsky.social )Luqman" #BlackLiberationMedia www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d6Q...
“Katrina exposed the lie of American equity.”
#BlackAugust calls us to remember: #Katrina wasn’t just a storm, but a catastrophe of racism + divestment. Alexis R. Posey writes why its legacy still shapes our fight for justice, 20 yrs later.
Read her powerful op-ed in @nyamnews.bsky.social.
#history #slavery #DrGeraldHorne #BlackPowerMedia #America #USA #HumanRights #Africa #deportations #families #children #imperialism #politics #BlackAugust
www.youtube.com/live/2GISLpH...
Dare 2 Struggle Dare 2 Win "(Episode 29) #BlackAugust Oral History ft. Dartricia Rollins" Cherie Danielle, Dr. Yusef Bunchy Shakur & Geechee Yaw #BlackLiberationMedia #CMB #CommunityMovementBuilders www.youtube.com/watch?v=_usj...
The inside back cover of zine Black August: Origins, History, and Significance features a Required Reading list (“by no means complete”) of 20 books, which include Blood in My Eye, by George Jackson; Assata, by Assata Shakur; A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn; Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon; and more.
The inside back cover features a Required Reading list (“by no means complete”) of 20 #books, which include Blood in My Eye, by George Jackson; Assata, by Assata Shakur; A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn; Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon; and more. #zines #BlackAugust
Front cover of black and white photocopied zine Black August: Origins, History, and Significance, on which is an illustration of Malcolm X and other figures against an outline of the shape of the continent of Africa.
Today at work, I was given a free zine, Black August: Origins, History, and Significance, published in 2004 by Books 4 Prisoners Crew and distributed by True Leap Press. A digital copy is available via the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/blac... #activism #zines #BlackAugust #BlackHistory
This #BlackAugust, celebrate Black self-determination and remember Timbuctoo.
Learn more: www.njisj.org/print/njrcre...
grid of pictures, left to right clockwise: 1. depicts Mamie Till viewing her murdered son Emmett. 2. Picture from March on Washington 3. Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 4. Photo of Chadwick Boseman 5. Barack Obama accepting Democratic nomination for president
August 28 in history:
1833 - ended slavery in the British colonies, including the West Indies
1955 - Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi
1963 - March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
2008 - Barack accepts Democratic Nomination
2020 - Death of Chadwick Boseman
#BlackAugust
couldnt think of a better way to wrap up #BlackAugust!
Art as resistance. ✨
The Black August Queer Film Festival hits Minneapolis Aug. 31 at the new Pillsbury Creative Commons. Free screenings, performances & convos celebrating Black queer voices + abolition. #MSRNews #BlackAugust