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Podcast: By Any Means Necessary
Episode: The Roots of Black August and Why It Still Matters Today
Description: In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Dr. Akinyele Umoja, a Professor of Africana Studies at Georgia State University and author of We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement to discuss the meaning of Black August and its basis in the struggle of Black prisoners who organized while incarcerated, how the Black liberation movement has continued this tradition and used it as a period of preparation for the movement, how Black August also became an international phenomenon among the global African diaspora, and why Black...