by thecollective Aug 30, 2026
black august dugout

from The Dugout

What does it mean to develop discipline without reproducing authoritarianism? How can study become a form of preparation? How can remembering political prisoners change the way we understand incarceration happening around us now? 

This is Black August 2026: Part 2. 

Media 
Featured for Black August in this episode Archival footage from Ellis Haizlip's Soul featuring Georgia Jackson, mother of George and Jonathan Jackson.

A reading of Ya'Iyr Carter's "The Death of Jonathan Jackson," published through ⁠In the Belly⁠ 


More from this episode 
George Jackson: Soledad Brother, Blood in My Eye 
Other Books 
Against the State — James Stout
Are Prisons Obsolete? — Angela Davis
Assata: An Autobiography — Assata Shakur 
The Autobiography of Malcolm X 
Negroes with Guns — Robert F. Williams 
Black Reconstruction in America — W.E.B. Du Bois 
Revolutionary Suicide — Huey P. Newton

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