By Chairman Omali Yeshitela

The following presentation was made by Chairman Omali Yeshitela at a press conference held on June 15, 2020 by the Uhuru Movement in response to the St. Petersburg city council’s proposal to hang a plaque on the blank wall in city hall to replace an offensive anti-African, white nationalist mural that the Chairman tore down during a demonstration in 1966.

Delbert Orr Africa died on Monday, June 15, 2020, after a two-year battle with prostate and bone cancer.

We rescued reparations, because from our perspective reparations is a function of the revolution.

What distinguished the murder of Qassem Soleimani by U.S. air strike was not the fact that the U.S. would conduct a state-sanctioned assassination, which they have done many times, but that they openly acknowledged it.

For there to be an oppressed there has to be an oppressor. Each requires the other for its existence, right? This is what happens. 

Omowale Kefing was a giant. His feats in defense of our people and for our liberation are legendary and unequaled in the pantheon of African freedom fighters.

We have come to the conclusion long ago that America does not have the ability nor the intent to see African people free, in this country or any place on Earth.

This is the call to action for the 2019 African Liberation Day (ALD) Saturday and Sunday May 25 and 26 in Washington, DC.

Washington, DC—On Wednesday, April 3, 2019, Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations will be speaking at the ‘No to NATO; Yes to Peace’ Festival, an event which the Coalition has officially endorsed.