“Since 1979, New Afrikans living in the American empire have used the month of August to draw attention to "the oppressive treatment of our brothers and sisters disappeared inside the state-run gulags and concentration camps America calls prisons." For the Afrikan peoples of the Diaspora, especially in the California prison isolation units where the commemoration practice started. Black August is a month of enormous historical significance. Black August, according to Mumia Abu-jamal, one of our most devoted New Afrikan Freedom Fighters, "is a month of divine meaning, of repression and radical resistance, of injustice and divine justice; of repression and righteous rebellion; of individual and collective efforts to free the slaves and break the chains that bind us."
