Grassroots Pan-Afrikan Writing Lab: Black August Edition

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Sat Aug 15 2026 at 11:00 am to 01:00 pm

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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library | Washington, DC

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We're reading Assata Shakur's 1998 letter to Pope John Paul II, a proclamation of innocence and a critique of the Pr*son-industrial complex.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street Northwest, Washington, United States

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