African People’s Socialist Party (APSP)

On February 15, 2018 the film “Black Panther” was released to movie theaters worldwide, a film that has now become the highest grossing movie directed by an African in history.

Little Bobby Hutton was only 17 years old when Oakland pigs assassinated him on April 6,1968.

Bakari Olatunji has been an important part of the Uhuru Movement in Oakland, where he grew up, since the mid 1980s.

It was during one of my frequent prison stints that it became clear to me that the era of “protest politics” was over; that our people had to really fight for power and that meant we had to have a political party, the most effective vehicle for capturing and wielding political power.

Thousands of unknown freedom fighters were massacred. Others fell victim to mass military roundups and were often tortured and imprisoned under cruel conditions within the U.S. and worldwide.

On April 14-15th, 2018 in St. Louis, Missouri, the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, white people organized under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party, will hold its annual national convention. The following is a call to white people published by USM:

ST. PETERSBURG, FL - As early as 5:00 A.M. on Monday morning, the St. Petersburg Police began to set barricades around the black community on the south side, ensuring none of us could get in or out.

In September 1981, the Congress of the African People’s Socialist Party instituted February 21, the day the U.S government assassinated Malcolm X─ a giant of the African revolution─ the “Day of African Martyr."

Thanks to you and the overwhelming response from nearly 400 supporters, the Black Power Blueprint online fundraising drive successfully reached its goal for the project’s first phase, raising $25,000 in donations and reparations for the renovation of the Uhuru House at 4101 West Florissant in St. Louis.