Mission: Unite Black Long Beach
Kick off Black August with a community conversation focused on strengthening our village with intention, respect, and strategy.
Black community leaders and members are invited to come together for a hybrid meeting over a light breakfast to build relationships, share ideas, and discuss how we can organize with greater purpose and unity. This gathering is being planned by community members Ariel and Zainab, who are also part of the BLM Black Neighborhood Tenant Council.
See you:
Saturday, August 1
8:45–10:30 AM
Hybrid meeting with breakfast provided
RSVP for the location and virtual access now.
About Black August
Black August is an annual observance rooted in the organizing of incarcerated Black freedom fighters in California prisons during the 1970s. It is a month of remembrance, reflection, political education, discipline, and action that honors political prisoners and fallen revolutionaries, including George Jackson, Jonathan Jackson, Khatari Gaulden, and the San Quentin Six.
Shaped by the teachings of leaders such as Malcolm X, Black August calls on Black communities to study, fast, train, organize, and fight for liberation. It connects resistance to mass incarceration and state violence with the broader struggle for Black self-determination, community control, human rights, and freedom. Black August is both a tribute to those who resisted oppression and a challenge to strengthen our collective power today.
