Tag Archives | Black August

Black August is a month to commemorate and tell the history of those African men and women brutalized, locked up, and killed by the U.S. criminal justice system.

By denying parole and medical treatment, the U.S. prison system is sentencing its longest-held political prisoners to a slow death.

As the country faces crisis after crisis–an economic one, on top of a war against Black America all against the backdrop of a global pandemic–a small minority of the rich elite continues to profit off this misery, generating over $308 billion since the start of March.