Remembering Black August

Remembering Black August on a Happily Natural Day in Atlanta

Posted by vincent in Events & Event Photos, The Pangea's Garden Project, What's Going On? on December 17, 2010 | No Comments

Back in August I attend the Black August/Happily Natural Weekend event in Atlanta. The entire event was a learning experience as well as a visual treasure for me. Happily Natural has been going on for about eight years now and the purpose is to reaffirm our pride in our culture & ethnicity as African people worldwide. I’ll have more on Happily Natural in a later post. What I didn’t mention before (and what I didn’t know until this event) is that the Black August tradition was established during the 1970’s in the California prison system by men and women of the Black/New...