This month we’ve observed Black August, an annual commemoration that began in the California prison system in the 1970s to honor political prisoners and freedom fighters of the Black Liberation Movement killed by the state. It is a call for us to remember the humanity of political prisoners (old and new) and those who have called out the injustices of the world. At the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, we don’t see ourselves outside of the BLACK radical position — we ARE the BLACK radical position.
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