Black August is committed to the sovereignty and resilience of Black people around the world. Started by Black activists in the late 1970s to commemorate fallen political prisoners and to educate the community about conditions in US prisons, Black August is a month-long observance organized around building community, healing, renewing connections to the land, strategizing, and promoting discipline and physical well being. The Pōpolo Project’s Black August events are firmly grounded in the experience of Blackness in the Pacific as we work to link the struggles for a sovereign Hawai‘i to the struggle for West Papuan independence and the global movement for Black lives to the global movement for climate justice.

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