Black Panthers

Black August honors the martyrs and leaders of the Black Liberation Movement, demands the release of political prisoners languishing in US prisons, as well as calls for a stronger struggle for Black Liberation.

Jalil Muntaqim has been in jail since 1971 and was sentenced only in 1993. He was eligible for parole since 1998, but his requests were rejected twelve times

Mumia Abu-Jamal has spent 37 years in prison after being falsely convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981