The Black Women Freedom Fighters History Forgot — The Untold Trauma And Resistance Behind Black August

The Black Women Freedom Fighters History Forgot — The Untold Trauma And Resistance Behind Black August

Source: JHU Sheridan Libraries/Gado / 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 on in my academic career. My education in Black political activism began on the streets of North and West …