WE NEED A REVOLUTION

“Our job is not simply to study and understand the world—but to transform it.”

Books and Publications

1968 The Burning Spear newspaper
1978 Tactics and Strategy for Black Liberation in the U.S.
1981 The Struggle for Bread, Peace and Black Power
1982 Stolen Black Labor
1983 Reparations Now!
1984 A New Beginning and Not One Step Backwards
1987 The Road to Socialism is Painted Black
1992 Izwe Lethu I Afrika
2005 Omali Yeshitela Speaks
2006 One Africa! One Nation!
2010 One People! One Party! One Destiny!
2012 Quotations From Chairman Omali Yeshitela
2014 An Uneasy Equilibrium: The African Revolution versus Parasitic
Capitalism
African Self-Sufficiency Institutions
1970s Umoja Restaurant, St. Petersburg, FL
1980s Spear Graphics printing, Oakland, CA
1981 Florida Black Voice newspaper, Gainesville, FL
1982 Uhuru House community centers built
1987 Uhuru Bakery Café, Oakland, CA
1989 Uhuru Furniture stores, Oakland, CA and Philadelphia, PA
1995 TyRon Lewis Community Gym, St. Petersburg, FL
2006 Uhuru Radio
2007 UhuruNews.com
2012 Black Star Industries
2016Black Power 96.3 LPFM, St. Petersburg,

Accomplishments and Honors

1966 Florida organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC).
1967 Five-year sentence for tearing down racist mural in the St.
Petersburg, FL city hall.

1968 Formed JOMO, the Junta of Militant Organizations; launched
The Burning Spear newspaper.
1972 Formed the African People’s Socialist Party; sat on first African
Liberation Day Committee in U.S.
1975 Led campaign that freed Pitts and Lee, two innocent African
men on death row in Florida.
1976 Formed the African People’s Solidarity Committee; Launched
campaign that freed Dessie Woods, sentenced to 22 years in
Georgia for defending herself against white rapist.
1979 Formed the African National Prison Organization.

1981 First Party Congress Party Congress
1982 Built the First International Tribunal on Reparations for African
People in the U.S.; Formed the African National Reparations
Organization.
1983 Launched campaigns taking over abandoned houses for homeless
African families and built Tent City for the homeless in
Oakland, CA.
1984 Held Oakland Summer Project; put Measure O, the Community
Control of Housing Initiative on the ballot winning 22,000 votes.
1986 Opened a front of the Uhuru Movement in Philadelphia, PA
following the 1985 city bombing of MOVE that murdered 11
African men, women and children.
1987 Huey Newton and Omali Yeshitela shared stage at the Oakland
Uhuru House; one of Huey’s last public presentations.
1988 Gave a “Tribute to Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe” at United Nations
in New York City.
1991 2nd National People’s Democrat… – UF Digital Collections

History of InPDUM 1991- Present – YouTube

1996 Led the community fight-back following the police murder of
18-year-old Tyron Lewis and police attack on the Uhuru House.

1998 Conference to Build the Africa… – UF Digital Collections

2001 Ran for mayor of St Petersburg, Fl, winning all black and mixed
precincts but one.
Keynote, Eighth Congress of the Pan Africanist Congress of
Azania in Umtata, South Africa.
2004 Consolidated the African Socialist International in London,
England.
2006 Speaking tour of Southern Africa; met with Namibian
revolutionary leader, former president Sam Nujoma; founded the
All African People’s Development and Empowerment Program.
2007
Keynote, European Foundation for North-South Cooperation
International Congress, Huelva, Spain.
2008 Keynote, African Liberation Day, Washington, DC.
2009 Keynote, founding conferences of the African Socialist
International in Kenya and Sierra Leone.
Keynote, Conference on Racism and National Consciousness at
University of Toronto.
Keynote, Black is Back Mobilization in Washington, DC.
2010 Honored by the University of South Florida at the unveiling of
special collection of his writings.
Keynote, Fifth Congress of the African People’s Socialist Party,
Washington, DC.
2011 AAPDEP built mass branches and wellness clinic in Sierra Leone.
2012 Keynote, African Liberation Day, Paris, France.
Marcus Garvey Legacy Tour with actor Ron Bobb-Semple,
receiving standing ovations in London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels and
Stockholm.
2013 Speaking tour of Paris, Cologne, Berlin and Stockholm.
Key presentation at Howard University.
Presided over Sixth Congress of the African People’s Socialist
Party.
2014 Keynote, Malcolm X Conference, Minneapolis.
Addressed congregation of St. Paul’s AME church in Ferguson,
MO and other events following rebellions subsequent to police
killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
2015 Speaker at Dialog of Nations Conference in Moscow, Russia
Keynote, Annual IRIE FM-sponsored Marcus Garvey, Jamaica Tribute

 

Uhuru Tours and Speakers Bureau is an institution of the African People’s Socialist Party that coordinates events and tours for Chairman Omali Yeshitela and other Party speakers and leaders.

Uhuru Tours fills a unique niche by promoting the African People’s Socialist Party and African Internationalism, the political worldview of the African working class formulated by Chairman Yeshitela.

African Internationalism allows African people and others to understand the world and how it got the way it is. It creates a vision for a future of liberation for Africa and African people everywhere–a world without oppressors and the oppressed.

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