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Omali Yeshitela: Veteran of the Black Power Movement of the 1960s; leader of the African Socialist International today, organizing to reclaim Africa and all its resources as the birthright of African people everywhere.

Omali Yeshitela represents forty years of leading struggle for liberation, justice, reparations and worldwide African unity. Despite jailings, arrests, bombings of his home and opposition from the white power structure, Yeshitela has been called the “last man standing,” fighting to carry out the unfinished legacy of Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Kwame Nkrumah and Patrice Lumumba for One Africa! One Nation!

• 1966: Five year sentence for tearing down racist mural, St. Petersburg, FL city hall.
• 1967: Founded The Burning Spear black power newspaper, still published today.
• 1972: Formed the African People’s Socialist Party
• 1975: Led the worldwide movement to Free Dessie Woods, an African woman from Georgia sentenced to 22 years for killing a white man who tried to rape her.
• 1976: founded African People's Solidarity Committee
• 1980: Formed the African National Prison Organization
• 1982: Held First International Tribunal on Reparations for African People, Brooklyn
• 1984: Coordinated Measure O, the Community Control of Housing ballot initiative that won 22 percent of the vote in Oakland, CA
• 1985: Traveled Europe and U.S. building for the African Socialist International
• 1990: Formed the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement
• 1996: Led the community fight back against the police murder of TyRon Lewis in St. Petersburg FL
• 2001: Ran for mayor of St. Petersburg; won all black and mixed precincts but one.
• 2005: Publication of 15 years of speeches: Omali Yeshitela Speaks
• 2006: Publication of One Africa! One Nation!
• 2007: Launched Uhuru Radio and TV, worldwide African liberation news network.