This week we are highlighting freedom fighters from the Pride archive, and today we’re honoring Kuwasi Balagoon.

He was known by his comrades as a loving and loyal spirit who believed in the self-determination of all oppressed peoples. Balagoon, like many people during his life, was radicalized by the conditions he saw and experienced abroad and in the U.S. He was a Black Panther and Black Liberation Army fighter that stressed the importance of armed resistance, fugitive love and gender, and organization in the struggle for freedom.