August 21: #Black August Day of Black Power

August 21: #Black August Day of Black Power

August 21, 2021
Black August honors Black freedom fighters — past and present — many of whom were killed by the state or imprisoned for defending Black lives.

August 21st itself marks three key moments in Black history:

On August 21st, 1971, Comrade George Lester Jackson — co-founder of the Black Guerilla Family and author of Soledad Brothers and Blood In My Eye — led the San Quentin prison uprising, in which his life was sacrificed along with the lives of two other inmates.

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