Uhuru Movement

For more than 30 years, the Uhuru holiday pie sale has been the progressive holiday tradition in the San Francisco Bay Area and in St. Petersburg, Florida. Each fall, thousands of delighted buyers and hundreds of volunteer bakers and pie sellers support this vital program. 

The outpouring of support is not only for the mouth-watering fresh-baked fruit and nut pies. Uhuru Foods and Pies is a dynamic African economic development institution of Black Star Industries (BSI). 

BSI is the seed of the independent African economy through which we will once again own and control our resources. This is the future that each bite of an Uhuru Pie builds.

This year, Uhuru Pies Oakland is proud to introduce new head baker, Ngoyi Folayan!

The Black Community Control of Police Working Group of the Black is Back Coalition along with RBG Fridays and several members of the African community held a rally in defense of African resistance on Thursday, Sept 22nd.

The immediate reason for the rally was the police execution and subsequent media slander of slain African resistance fighter Nicholas Glenn. Glenn ambushed and killed at least one cop in West Philly on Friday Sept 16.

St. Petersburg, FL. Chairman Omali Yeshitela, leader of the African People’s Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement addresses an enthusiastic audience Tuesday, Sept. 13 at Akwaaba Hall about the issue of the anti-African mural that hung in the St. Petersburg, FL city hall for 30 years.

As the local leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Chairman Yeshitela, then known as Joseph Waller, ripped down the offensive painting during a protest on 50 years ago on December 28, 1966.

So when they killed that twenty-three-year-old boy in Milwaukee last night, it wasn’t some mistake, any more than it was when that white man killed that child in Huntsville, Alabama.

Why did that white man kill the child? Why is there a George Zimmerman? Why do we have the Ku Klux Klan and all those other entities?

Because that is the way this whole entity was created. Because in England and France and European places where you had a  movement from feudal control.

September 17th and 18th, 2016, let this be a date to go down in our movement’s history. It was the historic 25th Anniversary convention since the founding of InPDUM in Chicago of 1991.

It was held on the grounds of the 2014 African uprising, Ferguson, Missouri, in what could’ve been considered the safe haven for Africans at the time: Greater St. Marks Church.

Not only was the location of this event significant in making the 25th Anniversary Convention a success, it was also convened by the newly elected international executive committee comprised of African women: Membership Chair Akile Anai, Economic Development Coordinator Adisa Dokubo, Secretary Daraja Haki, under the leadership of President Kalambayi Andenet.

One of the things, that I certainly tried to do on yesterday with this conference was not simply to lay out the fact that we are consolidating this National Black Political Agenda for Self-Determination. Not simply talking about what we’re going to be doing coming forward. But also struggling to place what it is that we’re doing, in some, political context, because obviously, everything that we’re talking about requires struggle against white power, imperialism. And that is important.

But sometimes, imperialism doesn’t come in its own face. In fact, increasingly, over the last two or three generations, it has been extremely difficult for imperialism to step forward in its own face. And because of this, we’ve seen the emergence of what Kwame Nkrumah characterized as neocolonialism.

Mustafa Bearfield Jr., a 16-year-old teenager living in Huntsville, AL was on his way to school on June 21, 2016 when he was gunned down and murdered by white vigilante, Jonathan Scott only seconds away from his destination.

"Darren will never be forgotten as long as I got breath in my body, and when the breath leaves my body, the Uhuru Movement will be moving. Because the movement will move on over whoever is in our way! Uhuru!”

About two weeks ago, African students were threatened by school administration at Gibbs High School as an attack was placed on African culture.

My friend Jelani was walking through the school halls at when a school administrator and a resource (police) officer stopped her and ordered that she removed her African headwrap.

Puzzled, Jelani asked why, to which they responded that her African headwrap was a violation of the school dress code.

The presence of the police officer intimidated Jelani, so she followed the order and went to bathroom to take her headwrap off. She then called the African National Women’s Organization (ANWO) to inform them of the incident, to which they told her to stay strong and put her headwrap back on.