‘Black August’ marks month of study, remembrance and prison history – Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group

‘Black August’ marks month of study, remembrance and prison history – Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group

LOS ANGELES — In Los Angeles and beyond, Black August is not a festival or holiday. Born inside California’s prison system more than four decades ago, it is a month of fasting, study and remembrance — a time to honor political prisoners, mourn those killed in the struggle for liberation and confront the systems that continue to cage and kill. It is not, organizers stress, a celebration. Black August is solemn by design — a month of discipline an…