BLACK AUGUST 2026: The Revolutionary Potential of Black Youth

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement- DC Chapter and Pan-African Community Action (PACA) invite you to honor Black August 2026.
About this Event

D.C. community is invited to join the D.C. Chapter of Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and Pan-African Community Action (PACA), to commemorate Black August 2026 and Black August Resistance: The Revolutionary Potential of Black Youth.

SERIES SESSIONS:

• Wednesday, August 5th: Youth Inherit the Revolution: A Conversation with Jamal Joseph
• Wednesday, August 12th: Takin’ To The Streets: The Long Tradition of Revolutionary Youth Resistance
• Wednesday, August 19th: Long Live the Man Child!: Jonathan Jackson and the Revolutionary Potential of Black Youth
• Wednesday, August 26th: Manufacturing Consent: Youth, Miseducation and the Politics of Mass Incarceration

While all sessions will be hybrid, we highly encourage everyone to join us in person and break your Black August fast with us! Free Food Provided. We also ask that all participants mask. We will provide high quality masks if needed! Don’t miss out!

ABOUT THE PARTERING ORGANIZATIONS

The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is an organization of Afrikans in America/New Afrikans whose mission is to defend the human rights of our people and promote self-determination in our community. We understand that the collective institutions of whitesupremacy, patriarchy and capitalism have been at the root of our people’s oppression.

Pan-African Community Action (PACA) is part of the historic and global movement for Pan-Africanism, or the liberation and unification of Africa and of African people on the continent and in the diaspora, under the economic system of scientific socialism. As part of the Pan-African movement, PACA is a grassroots group of African/Black people organizing for community-based power.