1804 Books is excited to announce a forthcoming book this Black August, MANIFESTATIONS OF THOUGHT: WHEN THE DRAGON COMES, the selected writings of political prisoner Shaka Shakur.

Shaka Shakur was imprisoned in 2002 at the age of 16, but has remained a staunch political activist: he grew into a leader of the New Afrikan Movement and continues to publish and share political analysis, becoming a leader of organizers, both inside and outside prison fight for across the country.

As Derek Ford writes in the introduction, “The fact this book has made it to publication—that you’re holding these words on paper, seeing them on a screen, or hearing them read—is evidence that the state’s escalating efforts to silence Shaka A. Shakur . . . have so far failed.”

MANIFESTATIONS OF THOUGHT is both an urgent call and an everlasting record of a key leader of the Black liberation struggle. Produced closely with Shaka, this collection gathers his most significant personal, theoretical, organizational, and practical writings. This book is all the more important during Black August, a reminder to fight not to honor for the political prisoners of our past, but also for the revolutionaries still fighting for liberation today.