History

A brief history of Black August

Black August: The Untold Story (Black Power Media Reloaded on Youtube)

Learn about Mumia Abu Jamal

Podcast: The Classroom and the Cell on Youtube

Watch: Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (free on Kanopy)

Listen: https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/black-august-3/

Watch: Let the Fire Burn (2013) on MOVE (free on Kanopy)

Read: Live From Death Row, Jailhouse Lawyers, and more by Mumia Abu Jamal

George Jackson

Blood in my Eye(bio) and Soledad brother(Prison letters) – (Harris County Public Library)

Article: https://sfbayview.com/2021/08/george-jackson-50-years-later/

99 Books Project (His Prison library): https://99books.freedomarchives.org/document/99-books/

Attica

Read: Blood in the Water-Heather Ann Thompson – ( Harris Co Public library)

Graphic Novel: Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank “Big Black” Smith

Watch: Every Prison is Attica (Youtube short)

Ghosts of Attica (2001) https://tubitv.com/movies/100005670/ghosts-of-attica

Attica (2021) on Paramount Plus, Hulu, Showtime

Angola 3

Read: Solitary by Albert Woodfox – (Houston Public Library and Harris Co Public library)

Read: From the Bottom of the Heap by Robert Hilary King (PM Press)

Watch: Herman’s House (Youtube) and Cruel and Unusual (2017/Tubi)

Further Reading for Black August

1. Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur – (Houston and Harris Co Public libraries)

2. Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s by Gerald Horne – (Houston PL)

3. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story by Elaine Brown (Houston and Harris Co PL)

4. Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P Newton (Houston Public Library)

5. Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions – Sekou Odinga, Dhorubu Bin Wahad, Jamal Joseph (Houston Public Library)

6. Ashanti Alston- Anarchist Panther zine (Freedomarchives.org)

Black August Contacts

Texans

Howard Guidry #00999226

Tony Egbuna Ford #00999075

Alvaro Luna Hernandez ( Address to Xinachtli) #00255735

TDCJ mailing address:

Texas Department of Criminal Justice

(Name) #(tdcj number)

P.O. Box 660400

Dallas, TX 75266-0400

Prairieland 16 Defendants (county jail, federal custody)

IG at free.des.revol

Write/donate: www.dfwdefendants.wordpress.com/getinvolved

Palestine

www.Samidoun.net

IG @ freeleqaakordia

Stop Cop City

www.linktr.ee/stopcopcitylinks

Political prisoners listings (search by movements, location, birthday,etc)

https://www.prisonersolidarity.com/

thejerichomovement.com/prisoners

Mumia Abu Jamal

https://freemumia.com/how-to-help/

linktr.ee/mumia

Sundiata Acoli

https://www.thejerichomovement.com/profile/acoli-sundiata-clark-squire

Donate to his re-entry fund!: sundiataacolifc.org

Kamau Sadiki

Who Is Kamau?