Black August: A tribute to freedom fighters
By Lamont Lilly posted on July 23, 2021
The following slightly edited article was first published in August 2013. Lilly ran as Workers World Party’s candidate for vice president in 2016.
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28, 1963, galvanized hundreds of thousands in the streets of Washington, D.C. A. Philip Randolph helped to establish the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Harlem, N.Y., on Aug. 25, 1925. The Haitian Revolution first broke the chains of French colonialism in August 1791. August marks the Nat Turner slave rebellion of 1831 and the Watts Uprising of 1965. The Philadelphia Police Department first raided the MOVE organization on Aug. 8, 1978, giving way to the unjustly imprisoned MOVE 9. August also bears the births of Fred Hampton, Marcus Garvey and Mutulu Shakur.
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Sara Elizabeth and her 8 year old daughter Lily
“It’s crazy because we don’t even know if we are going to be able to do the weddings this weekend. So how are we supposed to have Christmas? How are we supposed to pay our car payments? I don’t understand how that is supposed to happen”
She was one of more than 2 dozen small business owners that showed up to share their stories alongside state delegate Brian Chisholm, after Chisholm put out a message on Facebook just 12 hours earlier.
“I promise you I would cut my left ear off if I could stop the virus myself,” said Chisholm, who represents parts of Anne Arundel County, including Severna Park. “But we have to look at the data, we have to look at correlations; do these really match up and do these measures result in saving lives? And there’s a lot of argument to be made that they are not.