Kumasi to Discuss Black August 7/25

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Black August Spot Kumasi

http://www.ckln.fm/audio/Kumasi-Blac...-Jul25-43s.mp3

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Press Release: For Immediate Release July 9, 2008

Diasporic Music, Saturday Morning Live and A Different Booklist present
Black August Special

Kumasi Discusses Black August at A Different Booklist

A video of Kumasi discussing Black August will be screened at A Different
Booklist, Friday, July 25th at 7pm.

When Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter, the Deputy Minister of Defense for the
Southern California was assassinated on Jan. 17th, 1969, Huey P. Newton
asked Kumasi to replace him and head the organization in Los Angeles.

Kumasi is a legendary freedom fighter who was once a leading figure in the
street organization, the Slausons. Many of the Slausons joined the Los
Angeles chapter of the Black Panther Party.

He spent 10 years in the California prison system, along with George
Jackson, Hugo Pennell and Chaka. He, along with Ron Wilkins and Bird, are
the subject of the film Made in America. Saturday Morning Live's Gerald
Horne is also in the film.

Kumasi is a prolific writer and his essay, “Panther Politics Cause Major
Breakthrough In Prison Censorship” appears in David Hilliard’s book Black
Panther Intercommunal News Service 1967-1980.

Kumasi is one of the architects of Black August. He will discuss the
meaning of Black August on a video that he made with Dedan, a member of
the All African People’s Revolutionary Party.

This is the 29th anniversary of Black August, first organized to honour
our martyred freedom fighters; Jonathan and George Jackson, Khatari
Gaulden, James McClain, William Christmas, and the sole survivor of the
August 7,1970 Courthouse Slave Rebellion, Ruchell Cinque Magee. It’s a
time to embrace the principles of unity, self-sacrifice, political
education, physical fitness and/or training in martial arts, resistance
and revolution - transforming ourselves into the new man, the new woman.

As Mumia Abu-Jamal noted, “August is a month of meaning, of repression and
radical resistance, of injustice and divine justice; of repression and
righteous rebellion; of individual and collective efforts to free the
slaves and break the chains that bind us.”

For more information contact Norman Richmond (416) 979-5251 ext. 2372 or A
Different Booklist 416 538-0889

For a clip of Kumasi check out:

YouTube - MADE IN AMERICA at LA FILM FEST 2008 presented by LA TIMES