Omali Yeshitela

Nov 12, 2024 | blackagendareport.com | Cody Bloomfield |Jon Jeter |Omali Yeshitela |Raymond Turner

The House is set to vote Tuesday on a bill that would let the administration destroy nonprofits it claims support terrorism. Originally published in The Intercept. Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire for revenge. On the campaign trail, he joked about being a dictator on “day one” in office, pledged to jail journalists, and threatened to retaliate against political foes who he felt had wronged him.

Oct 22, 2024 | blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Omali Yeshitela |Natasha Lennard

Activists organizing against the militarized police training facility in Atlanta are facing new forms of repression. Originally published in Truthout. With each passing day, the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center (dubbed “Cop City” by opponents) inches toward completion. It’s been just under a year since the last Stop Cop City mass mobilization march attempted to breach the site, but the struggle against the militarized police training facility continues.

Sep 17, 2024 | blackagendareport.com | Omali Yeshitela |Ann Garrison |Margaret Kimberley |Raymond Turner

The ruling class is once again in a frenzied state, seeking to crush political dissent and a growing class consciousness with an iron fist in another wave of repression. On a bitterly cold December morning in 1919, prison guards at Ellis Island roused 249 shackled deportees from their bunks and trundled them to a Brooklyn pier where they walked a gangplank to board a retired warship, heading for Europe.

Sep 26, 2023 | indybay.org | Omali Yeshitela

A panel of international judges heard two days of testimony from the likes of Dr. Leonard Jeffries, then-Chairman of the Black Studies Department at City College of the City University of New York; Job Mashariki, then-President of Black Veterans for Social Justice; Afeni Shakur, member of the Panther 21 and mother of Tupac Shakur; Ebun Adelona, noted health care advocate; Eric Adams, present-day mayor of NYC; Kwame Braithwaite, acclaimed photojournalist; and Mafundi Lake, Alabama political...

Aug 8, 2023 | stltoday.com | Omali Yeshitela

That Omali Yeshitela holds what most Americans would consider some radical political views is beyond dispute. The 81-year-old activist based in north St. Louis has been demanding slavery reparations since long before it was fashionable, refers to the United States government as “colonizers” and heads an organization called the African People’s Socialist Party. He has been open about his support for Russia in its unprovoked war against Ukraine.