Lula Mae Parker Harris Day

Lula Mae Parker Harris Day
Distribution Date: Saturday, September 6, 2025
Location: Throughout the City of Poughkeepsie

September 9, 2023—Dutchess County Proclamation in Honor of the late Lula Mae Parker Harris, Civil Rights Pioneer-Beloved Community Organizer: 

"She believed every person deserved respect and dignity. We carry her legacy forward through service and solidarity." 

A $25 contribution will provide a self-care package to someone experiencing housing insecurity. To donate or get involved: Monique Tyler: 301-254-8971 • Renee Galloway: 301-442-9995. Your support is an act of a promise kept.

Repression and radical resistance

“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."
 

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