BLACK AUGUST INTERNATIONAL SOUTH

2514 Washington Avenue,New Orleans LA 70113

20 August, 2021

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B.A.I.S. was born out of Black August International, founded by Mama Kiilu Nyasha of the BPP & comrade of Field Marshall George Jackson. Black August is a month of great significance for Africans throughout the diaspora, but particularly here in the U.S. where it originated. August, as Mumia Abu-Jamal noted, is a month of meaning, of repression and radical resistance, of injustice and divine justice; of repression and righteous rebellion; of individual and collective efforts to free the slaves and break the chains that bind us. On this 42nd anniversary of Black August, first organized to honor our fallen freedom fighters, Jonathan and George Jackson, Khatari Gaulden, James McClain, William Christmas, and the sole survivor of the August 7, 1970 Courthouse Slave Rebellion, Ruchell Cinque Magee, it is still a time to embrace the principles of unity, self-sacrifice, political education, physical fitness and/or training in martial arts, resistance, and spiritual renewal.. xo The concept, Black August, grew out of the need to expose to the light of day the glorious and heroic deeds of those Afrikan women and men who recognized and struggled against the injustices heaped upon people of color on a daily basis in America. http://kiilunyasha.blogspot.com/2016/08/black-august-story-of-african-freedom.html