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Hello and welcome back to #Fuck12Friday! It has been a HECTIC week with the shooting of #LatrellAllen, so we're going to be taking a step back and do some history on #BlackAugust and the Black radical tradition. Follow along!
#BlackAugust is now a 41-year-old tradition, started in 1979 by Black people incarcerated in California. These folks wanted to begin a movement that honored the radical history of prison protest #Fuck12Friday
Why August? George Jackson, Black Panther and co-founder of the Black Guerilla Family. Jackson was incarcerated at age 18 and radicalized in prison. On August 21, 1971, Guards murdered Jackson at age 29 in a prison escape #BlackAugust #Fuck12Friday
