Some might argue that the direct line between, when the first ship with 20 plus enslaved Africans arrived on the shores of Virginia, in August 1619; to the start of Black August movement; and the current call for action within the prisons are all interconnected. For 400 years, the African American struggle has been constant.
Today we speak with Ayanna Mashama, a veteran organizer, co-founder of the Black August Organizing Committee (1979) and the Bay Area chapter of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement to discuss the origins of Black August and how it has shaped our liberation struggle unlike any other.
