Long before the Black Lives Matter movement began, Black August was initiated by the Black Guerilla Family in San Quentin State Prison in 1979, when a group of incarcerated men came together to commemorate the deaths of brothers Jonathan P. Jackson (d. Aug. 7, 1970) and George Jackson (d. Aug. 21, 1971) at San Quentin […]
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