Black August 2022 Study Group Series

Online Group Study Series Every Wednesday Night in August 2022

(Schedule, Registration and Syllabus below)

 

What is Black August? Why is it important to know about and uplift the struggle of political prisoners?

Black August Resistance! Liberation organizations that study together, struggle together and win together!

Join the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement DC chapter and Pan African Community Action (PACA) every Wednesday for a weekly series of political education during the month of Black August, from 7 - 9 pm EST.

 

STUDY GROUP SESSION SCHEDULE

August 10th - Angela Davis and The Soledad Brothers, film screening/discussion
August 17th - Black August Lessons from Mumia Abu Jamal
August 24th - Safiya Bukhari-Alston Coming of Age of a Revolutionary from Imprisoned Intellectuals
August 31st - Hybrid Women in Prisons, How it is With Us. Assata Shakur

 

STUDY GROUP SERIES REGISTRATION 

All sessions are live online. Registration is free, but required.

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/badc2022

 

Reading: Coming of Age: A black Revolutionary by Safiya Bukhari-Alston

 

 

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2022 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

WOMEN IN PRISON, HOW IT IS WITH US - ASSATA SHAKUR

Hybrid Event: Online + In person at the

Congress Heights Arts & Culture Center

3200 MLK Ave, SE, Washington, DC 

Food & Drinks provided at 6:30pm

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/badc2022

 

 

 

STUDY GROUP SERIES SYLLABUS

Books, Essays & Articles:

• “The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison,and Fighting for Those Left Behind by Safiya Bukhari”
• “Blood In My Eye” George Jackson
• “Imprisoned Intellectuals” Edited by Joy James
• “Coming of Age: A Black Revolutionary” - Safiya Bukhari-Alston
• “Genocide Against the Black Nation in the U.S. Penal System (Abridged) - Mutulu Shakur, Anthony X. Bradshaw, Malik Dinguswa, Terry Long, Mark Cook, Adolfo Matos, and James Haskins

Prison Radio: 

• “Cracks In The Walls of Empire Mumia Abu Jamal” (audio & transcript)
• “The Valley of Death” Krystal Hunt (audio & transcript)
• “Women in Prison: How It Is With Us - An Essay by Assata Shakur
• “Who Are New Afrikan Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War?

Films, Videos, & Documentaries: 

• “Angela Davis and the Soledad Brothers (1971)
• “Dope Is Death” 
• “Black August International Resistance”
• “Black August Resistance Family Fitness & Defense by Malcolm X Grassroots Movement”
• Safiya Bukhari-Alston 
• Fannie Lou Hamer Interview 1965
• Black August and Black Rebellion