Black Panther Party

SOCA, SFPIRG, and CPSHR screen Black August

By: Lucaiah Smith-Miodownik, News Writer Content warning: mentions of police brutality and homicides. On February 24, SFU Students of African and Caribbean Ancestry (SOCA), Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group (SFPIRG), and Canada-Phillipines Solidarity for Human Rights (CPSHR) joined together to host a screening of Black August. Beginning in the 1970s, Black August became a time when people commemorate “the lives and deaths of Black political prisoners killed by the state, bring awareness to prison conditions, and honour the radical tradition of Black resistance against anti-Black state violence systemic oppression.” The film follows the true story of George Jackson, an…

Continue reading