What Black August Means to Us

from The Dugout

What does it mean to develop discipline without reproducing authoritarianism? How can study become a form of preparation? How can remembering political prisoners change the way we understand incarceration happening around us now?

This is Black August 2026: Part 2.

Media

Featured for Black August in this episode Archival footage from Ellis Haizlip's Soul featuring Georgia Jackson, mother of George and Jonathan Jackson.

A reading of Ya'Iyr Carter's "The Death of Jonathan Jackson," published through ⁠In the Belly⁠

More from this episode

George Jackson: Soledad Brother, Blood in My Eye

Other Books

Against the State — James Stout

Are Prisons Obsolete? — Angela Davis

Assata: An Autobiography — Assata Shakur

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Negroes with Guns — Robert F. Williams

Black Reconstruction in America — W.E.B. Du Bois

Revolutionary Suicide — Huey P. Newton

Tags

• prison
• Black Panther Party
• history
• black august