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.
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Media Featured for Black August in this episode
Archival footage from Ellis Haizlip's Soul featuring Georgia Jackson, mother of George and Jonathan Jackson. | Watch more of SOUL! on this Youtube playlist
A reading of Ya'Iyr Carter's "The Death of Jonathan Jackson," published through In the Belly
EPISODE CHAPTERS
00:00 Introducing the episode
01:50 Jonathan Jackson and the origins of Black August
15:00 Discipline without authoritarianism
37:00 ICE and Electric shock gloves
44:43 Legal support, jail support, and political education
56:00 Georgia Jackson on Soul
01:04:31 "The Death of Jonathan Jackson" by Ya'Iyr Carter
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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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