Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Hip-Hop began as a platform for Black youth to document their daily survival under poverty and city neglect, offering a raw dispatch from the streets, capturing police abuse and surveillance, prison expansion, and the systemic pressures facing politically maligned Black neighborhoods. By the time Hip-Hop was born on the streets […]
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Source: Bettmann / Getty Every year when Black August rolls around, the stories we pull from the archive tend to center on Black men’s experience while the distinct warfare waged against Black women political prisoners gets reduced to a quiet whisper, if mentioned at all. I learned to tune my ears to those whispers early […]
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Source: Super Scout / Getty Welp, good people, Black August is here. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Black August — including our white and eternally fragile brethren who are now rolling their eyes, saying, “OMG, not another Black month, as if Black History Month wasn’t enough” — the Center for Constitutional Rights defines […]
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August—-Black August—like February’s Black History Month and June’s Juneteenth, is a month dedicated to honoring Black history and history makers. But its look goes beyond those who–mostly rightly–are broadly anointed as such by much of American society. Born on the unforgiving grounds of California’s San Quentin Prison, Black August is a child of the regularly […]
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