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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Tavis Smiley is set to launch KBLA Talk 1580 on June 19, Juneteenth, dubbed the first âUnapologetically Progressiveâ Black-owned and operated, talk radio station in Southern California.
We previously reported, not only is Smiley acquiring an entire broadcasting station, but a multidimensional one at that, that has room for the continued expansion on the agenda of diversity. The facility, with a total of 10 towers for day and nighttime powers respectively, is best known for being the home of Los Angelesâ pioneering hip-hop station, KDAY, in the 1980s. Its signal reaches the entire L.A. basin and much of coastal San Diego.
Starting this Saturday, June 19, to commemorate Juneteenth, it will convert from Spanish-language programming to presumably serve as a talk radio station catering to the Black community â relating to the prominent display of the historic Watts Towers in its logo. However, the word âprogressiveâ suggests Smiley has bigger sights than ju