Health

The city ignored 9,000 complaints about toxic conditions filed between 2015 and 2018. Teachers complained of shoddy clean up work and said workers hired to remove the asbestos left piles of toxic dust all over the children’s desks.

The 8th Annual Uhuru Health Festival & One Africa! One Nation! (OAON) Marketplace on Saturday April 27 was a victory in the struggle for African health, economic development and self-determination! 

Philadelphia, PA─  On Saturday, April 21st, the African People’s Education and Defense Fund (APEDF) is h our 7th Annual Uhuru Health Festival & Flea Market and on April 28 APEDF and Black Star Industries (BSI) in Oakland are hosting the 4th Annual Uhuru Health Fair at our own Akwaaba Hall. 

According to a 2014 study by the U.S. Census Bureau, 16 percent (6.8 million) of Africans have mental health issues

Natural and manmade disasters continue to destroy African communities.

HOUSTON—Organizers of the All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) were informed by the landowners of the piece of land where the AAPDEP 5th Ward Community Garden sits of their need to sell the property in April 2017.

Three weeks after Hurricane Maria’s September 16, 2017 devastating landing on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, causing the destruction of its fragile colonialist infrastructure, the people are still dying, there is no electrical grid, and food, water and medicine are trickling down to the people at a snail’s pace.

What is SOILdarity? It is unity with the land. It is our connection to our environment and ancestors.

A production of the African People’s Education and Defense Fund (APEDF), “Gettin’ Bodied” is a new dance instruction based exercise class Mondays and Thursdays at 6pm in Akwaaba Hall at the St. Petersburg Uhuru House.