Stop police and white nationalist terror against the African community. Join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement for the Days of Reparations to African People!
Lynchings of African people on the rise in the U.S.
On June 30, 2025, an African man was found hanging from a tree off a trail in Dimond Canyon in Oakland, California. A police officer at the scene dismissively told a neighbor it was a suicide.
After a month of community pressure, The Oaklandside published an article calling it a “suspicious death,” while the sheriff’s coroner still ruled it a suicide. On August 13, the city of Oakland held an unpublicized meeting to appease community demands for answers. Police gave little information, repeating that “the investigation is ongoing.”On August 29, The Oaklandside ran another article dismissing community questions as “rumors.” It parroted the Oakland Police Department’s claim that “the family wants privacy” in an attempt to shut down discussion.
The June 30 death must be seen in the context of rising white nationalist attacks and police cover-ups. In Albany, New York, in June, the family of Earl Smith believes he was lynched, while police ruled it a suicide. Other recent cases dismissed as “suicides” include Saniyah Cheatham in New York City, Denoriss Richardson in Alabama, and Javion Magee in North Carolina. Between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries, white mobs lynched thousands of African people in the U.S. Today, the State continues to cover up lynchings under the same false label of “suicide.”
The history of the Oakland Police Department
The Oakland Police Department has a long record of violence against African and Mexican communities. The heroic Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in response to OPD brutality. OPD remains under federal oversight since the 2001 prosecution of the “Oakland Riders,” who brutalized and framed African people, planting drugs and falsifying reports to cover their crimes.
Since then, OPD has committed many extrajudicial killings of African and Mexican people—Gary King Jr., Casper Banjo, Demouria Hogg, Jose Luis Benrostro, to name only a few. In 2017, a teenage girl was trafficked and abused by multiple Bay Area police officers, exposing the State’s role in sexual violence. This case was later depicted in Leila Mottley’s best-selling novel “Nightcrawling.”
The police are an armed force of the State, descended from overseers and slave catchers on the plantation, all the way to the KKK. p PHOTO: DANIEL ARAUZ, CC BY-SA 2.0 <HTTPS://CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG/LICENSES/BY-SA/2.0>, VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
We demand reparations to African people
This family is owed reparations—regardless of the circumstances—for decades of State-sanctioned violence, white nationalist terror, and the ongoing theft of Africa’s labor and resources to enrich the white world.
Join the Campaign for the Days of Reparations to African People
We refuse to be silent or complicit in genocide. We will not look away while police continue to gun down African people in cold blood. A new world is rising. From North St. Louis to the Sahel, colonized peoples are fighting for their freedom. True solidarity with Palestine and other anti-colonial struggles begins with solidarity with African people colonized inside the U.S.
This is the pledge of reparations to African people now being taken by white people across the U.S. as part of the 2025 Days of Reparations to African People (DREP). The campaign is organized by the Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM), the organization of white people working under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), to raise $30,000 as material solidarity with the African Liberation Movement. The APSP has called on the African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) to host annual marches, conferences, and events for reparations since the first “March Against Genocide” in San Francisco in 1979.
In this period of deepening crisis and resistance, the Days of Reparations campaign is more urgent than ever. This is how we change the world. This is how we fight back against the system of endless war, genocide, and imperialism built on the backs of African people for the benefit of the white world. The Uhuru Solidarity Movement works under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party to build a movement of white people paying reparations to the African Liberation Movement.
