Reparations in Action

First of a three part series on the free speech trial of the century! We have two members of the Uhuru 3, Jesse Nevel and Penny Hess, on to discuss the FBI's motives behind the bogus attack on Chairman Omali Yeshitela and the Uhuru Movement. Penny and Jesse also explain the counteroffensive led by the Chairman against these attacks and the formation of the Hands Off Uhuru! Fightback Coalition.

Recording of a special LIVE episode of the Reparations in Action / White Lies Shattered FM radio show and podcast. Hosts Brendan McCoy and Penny Hess (Chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee and author of Overturning the Culture of Violence) speak with Black Power 96 Station Manager Eddie Maultsby and other members of the Black Power 96 team about the station's fight for grant funds stolen by the Pinellas County Commission. They discuss the attack on Black Power 96 Radio in the context of historical and current attacks on the rights of black people to freedom of speech. This special episode is part of Black Power 96.3 FM community radio's July Fightback Fund Drive. Donate toward the Reparations in Action show goal at BlackPower96.org/Donate. The Reparations in Action / White Lies Shattered FM radio show and podcast airs Fridays at 3pm ET on Black Power 96.3 FM in St. Petersburg, Florida and is available on demand at UhuruSolidarity.podbean.com, iTunes, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. Have a question or comment? Email RIA@BlackPower96.org. If you like what you hear, please rate this podcast at Apple Podcasts. 

Chairwoman Penny and Brendan discuss the 2024 USM Convention: "No More Genocide in our Name" with Chair Jesse, Ruby Gittelsohn, and Jamie Simpson. Featuring live clips from the Convention!

Come be a part of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement's annual convention! USM Chair Jesse Nevel tells us what to expect for this year's big event. The Convention will take place in North St. Louis and calls on all white people to say, "No More Genocide in Our Name!".

In this week's episode we'll hear USM Chair Jesse Nevel's presentation at the December 17th Jews Against Colonialism event. Afterwards, we'll discuss with Chair Jesse, long-time APSC member Ruby Gittelsohn, and Chairwoman of APSC Penny Hess.

Penny Hess interviews Jesús Rodriguez-Espinoza, editor of the Orinoco Tribune. They discuss the recent freeing of wrongfully imprisoned diplomat, Alex Saab, as well as current affairs in Venezuela. 

Chairwoman Penny interviews Secretary General of the African Socialist International, Luwezi Kinshasa, on the anti-colonial struggles of African people in the Sahel Region of Africa.

Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel provide context on the colonial genocide happening in Palestine and why Palestine must be free! They also discuss the history behind the colonial holiday of "Thanksgiving".

In this episode, we interview the People's Alderman, Jesse Todd, about the "Dred Scott City of Refuge Resolution" that he presented to the St. Louis City Board of Aldermen. The People's Alderman dives into the importance of this document, its relevance in today's political climate, and how you can use it to turn your city into a "city of refuge".

In this episode, we look back on Day 2 of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement's 2023 Convention: "White People, Say No the FBI War on Black Liberation!" with a clip from the tour of the Black Power Blueprint. Afterwards, we interview longtime APSC member, Kitty Reilly, who works directly under APEDF President Ona Zené Yeshitela. Learn how the Black Power Blueprint is bringing the community together and changing the landscape in North St. Louis!

In anticipation of Chairman Omali Yeshitela's new book, Chairwoman Penny Hess and Chair Jesse Nevel analyze the documentary on the 1982 World Tribunal on Reparations.

Recording of a live episode held during Black Power 96's fund drive! In this episode, Chairwoman Penny, Jamie Simpson, and Brendan McCoy speak with Mr. Eddie, Station Manager of Black Power 96, as well as Chairman Omali Yeshitela on the importance of the station and its role in the community. 

In this episode, we speak with Jesse Nevel, Chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, on his history with the Solidarity Movement and his perspective on the FBI attacks on the African People's Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement. Jesse talks about the strategic importance of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement and how the Movement has grown since these attacks. 

In this episode, we speak with Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee, on the FBI's attacks on the African People's Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement. Chairwoman Penny addresses the history of the FBI and exposes these bogus attacks. 

Black Power 96 Radio Station Manager Eddie Maultsby and Burning Spear Media Director Akilé Anai discuss the Uhuru Movement's counteroffensive against the government's attempts to silence the on air voice of the African Revolution, Black Power 96 Radio.  

Counterinsurgency: A war without terms     Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel explain what counterinsurgency is and give an update on the Hands Off Uhuru campaign to stop FBI attacks on the African People's Socialist Party.

An exclusive interview with the African People's Socialist Party's Haiti Expert, Elikya Ngoma about the colonial crisis unfolding in Haiti.   

White Lies Shattered episode 33 begins with updates from APSC Chairwoman Penny Hess and USM Chair Jesse Nevel on the Hands Off Uhuru! Hands Off Africa! campaign following the July 29th FBI raids on the Uhuru Movement. We then hear the interview from Ron Gochez of Union del Barrio about the LA City Council leaders recently exposed for their white nationalism, and the long history of African and Indigenous solidarity.

Clips from the 2022 Day of Reparations to African People speaking tour titled,  "Hands Off Uhuru!" and a discussion with tour speakers, Jesse Nevel and Penny Hess.

On this episode of the Reparations in Action / White Lies Shattered radio show and podcast, host Jamie Simpson interviews Akilé Anai of the African People's Socialist Party about the vicious July 29th FBI attacks on the Uhuru Movement. Calling on the white community: oppose counterinsurgency; stand in solidarity with the Black Liberation Movement facing the most severe government repression since the 1960s and COINTELPRO.

Today, at 3pm ET on Black Power 96. check out a new episode of Reparations in Action that features the Director of the Department of Agitation and Propaganda for the African People's Socialist Party (APSP), Akile Anai, National Director of Organization for the APSP, Chimurenga Selembao and Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair Jesse Nevel providing updates on the continuing struggle to win reparations for African people in St Petersburg, FL by returning all 86 acres of the Tropicana Field baseball stadium. The city of St Petersburg destroyed the once vibrant black community known as the Gas Plant District to build the sports arena in the 1980's. As the first African mayor of St Petersburg begins his term, will this mean reparations for the colonized African working class? How can the struggle for reparations help alleviate the desperate rent hike and housing crisis in St Petersburg and win rent control in the city? What is the role of white people in this struggle? Don't miss this report from the front lines of the struggle against gentrification (aka colonial genocide) under the leadership of the African Revolution.

African People's Socialist Party Agit-Prop Director Akilé Anai invites you to tune in to today's live episode of "White Lies Shattered," a fundraiser for Black Power 96.3FM   

Tune in to a new episode of White Lies Shattered at 3pm ET today! In this episode, Penny Hess and Jamie Simpson sum up and provide an African Internationalist analysis of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe V Wade. Hear the response from the African National Women's Organization and the plan for an anti-colonial fight back against this latest form of colonial oppression. Find the episode on @blackpower96fm or wherever you listen to podcasts.  

Did you know that France forced Haiti to pay billions in so-called reparations to their former slave masters? Don't miss African People's Solidarity Committee Chairwoman Penny Hess and White Lies Shattered host Jamie Simpson continue to sum up the recent New York Times Article, "The Ransom" which lays out the colonial plunder of Haiti carried out by France and the US. In part 2 of this episode, Hess and Simpson reveal that it is the uneasy equilibrium between colonialism and the African Revolution that has forced the colonial media to expose the plunder of Haiti. This episode also addresses the fact that the parasitic relationship between France and African people in Haiti is not unique. It is part of a colonial mode of production, a global system of colonial capitalism which requires extreme poverty and oppression for African and other colonized people in order to prop up the wealth of Europe and white people.  

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Penny Hess and Jamie Simpson sum up the recent NY Times article, " The Ransom: The root of Haiti's suffering: reparations to enslavers," about the colonial plunder France and the US inflicted on Africans in Haiti as retribution for the world's first successful workers' revolution.  

Tune into a new episode of White Lies Shattered FM radio show and podcast. This edition features Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair Jesse Nevel and USM organizer,  Leah Fifield destroying the lie that Minneapolis, MN is a progressive city.   Two years after the murder of George Floyd the colonial oppression of African and Indigenous peoples continues unabated.   The Twin Cities contain two realities: one of prosperity for white people on the one hand and enforced poverty, police terror, and genocide for African people and Indigenous people on the other.  

Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel sum up that the struggle against climate change is a struggle against colonialism.

Today, at 3pm ET on Black Power 96 fm radio and wherever podcasts are found, check out a new episode of Reparations in Action featuring presentations from the historic 2022 National Convention of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement titled, "Unity Through Reparations; Reparations Through Organization" including Uhuru Movement founder and leader, Chairman Omali Yeshitela, African People's Solidarity Committee Chairwoman, Penny Hess and Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair, Jesse Nevel as well as clips from the Rally for Reparations at the Gateway Arch in St Louis.

Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel continue an African Internationalist discussion of the history of US and NATO aggression against Russia.    

Today, at 3pm ET on Black Power 96. check out a new episode of Reparations in Action that features the Director of the Department of Agitation and Propaganda for the African People's Socialist Party (APSP), Akile Anai, National Director of Organization for the APSP, Chimurenga Selembao and Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair Jesse Nevel providing updates on the continuing struggle to win reparations for African people in St Petersburg, FL by returning all 86 acres of the Tropicana Field baseball stadium. The city of St Petersburg destroyed the once vibrant black community known as the Gas Plant District to build the sports arena in the 1980's. As the first African mayor of St Petersburg begins his term, will this mean reparations for the colonized African working class? How can the struggle for reparations help alleviate the desperate rent hike and housing crisis in St Petersburg and win rent control in the city? What is the role of white people in this struggle? Don't miss this report from the front lines of the struggle against gentrification (aka colonial genocide) under the leadership of the African Revolution.

Today at 3 pm ET on Black Power 96 check out a new special episode of Reparations in Action that takes an African Internationalist look at the US imperialist-created crisis between Ukraine and Russia. Don't miss African People's Solidarity Committee Chairwoman, Penny Hess and Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair, Jesse Nevel cutting through the hysteria of US propaganda to reveal the truth that the conflict in Ukraine is a symptom of the "Uneasy Equilibrium" between colonial capitalism and the revolutionary struggle of African and other colonized people for liberation.     

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Re-playing Episode 5 of “Reparations in Action: White Lies Shattered" airs Friday, April 9th from 3-4 pm EST on Black Power 96.3 FM, St. Petersburg. This edition features Penny Hess ripping to shreds the white lie that, "It's not about race, it's about class." Tune to hear the African Internationalist response to this colonizer white left denial of the colonial contradiction as expressed through opportunistic slogans like, "black and white unite and fight," and the historical distortion that says white people were some how “duped” into enslaving and lynching African people. Episode 5 will look squarely at the vile truth of enthusiastic white complicity with colonial violence through the eyes of the African working class. As Chairman Omali Yeshitela has said, "The real class question is located in the colonial contradiction." Tune in on UhuruSolidarity.podbean.com, BlackPower96.org, iTunes, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. Ask questions or make a comment- RIA@BlackPower96.org. If you like what you hear, please rate this podcast at Apple Podcasts. 

IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS IMPORTANT EPISODE: Did you know that the city government of St. Petersburg, Florida destroyed a black community in the 1980s? This episode features interviews with African People's Socialist Party Department of Agitprop director and former St. Petersburg city council candidate Akile Anai (AKA Eritha Akile Cainion), APSP member Themba Tshibanda and Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair and former St. Petersburg mayoral candidate Jesse Nevel who help shatter the lie that the city of St. Petersburg is offering economic development to the African community with any of its corporate schemes to redevelop the land at Tropicana Field which was built by destroying the Gas Plant district, the oldest black neighborhood in the city. Learn about the vibrant history of this once thriving community and the mendacity of a city government and white ruling class that continues to profit from the forced removal of the African population. This episode explains the goals of the "Reparations Now: Take Back the Dome," campaign led by the Uhuru  Movement which is calling for the return of the 86 acres of land under the Tropicana stadium to be returned to the black community as an act of reparations."

Today at 3pm ET on Reparations in Action, African People's Solidarity Committee Chairwoman Penny Hess and Uhuru Solidarity Chair Jesse Nevel obliterate the imperial lie that colonial capitalism will solve the climate change crisis. This African Internationalist analysis of the COP 26 2021 makes clear that colonialism caused the climate crisis and that there can be no end to environmental destruction as long as the system of parasitic capitalism still exploits and oppresses the peoples of the world and the earth itself.

Don't miss this exclusive interview with African People's Solidarity Committee Chairwoman Penny Hess and Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair Jesse Nevel who respond to the acquittal of white nationalist vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse in Wisconsin as well as the trial of the Ahmaud Arbery's killers in Georgia. This special episode provides an African Internationalist analysis of these events and puts the Rittenhouse acquittal in the context of the anti colonial struggle for Black Power and reparations.  

TyRon Lewis Lives- The Battle of St Pete, 25 Years Later -  Part 2: An interview with African People's Socialist Party National Director of Organization, Chimurenga Selemabao. Tune in for this second part of a special episode summing up the significance of the rebellions of 1996 that emerged in the wake of the police murder of TyRon Lewis. Join us for a conversation with Director Chimurenga Selembao who was at the Uhuru House on November 13th, 1996 when the Battle of St Pete began. Don't miss his first hand account of the police assault on a meeting at the Uhuru House and how the African working class community of St Petersburg rose up in a heroic rebellion that pushed the colonial police out of the black community and delivered a decisive defeat to colonial capitalism.   

Don't miss this special edition of Reparations in Action that features an interview with African People's Socialist Party Department of Agitation and Propaganda Director, Akile Anai about the significance of the 25 year anniversary of the police murder of TyRon Lewis and the heroic rebellions that emerged in response to this colonial murder of an 18 year old African in broad daylight. The African community of St. Petersburg, FL had been politicized by 30 years of leadership from the Uhuru Movement and rose up in armed resistance to the police and colonial state after TyRon Lewis was shot to death by a white cop on October 24th just blocks away from the Uhuru House.  The black community of St Petersburg challenged the police with a fierce armed resistance again on November 13th, 1996 in what has been called the Battle of St. Pete. The November 13th uprising came in response to over 300 armed to the teeth police converging on the Uhuru House ( headquarters of the African People's Socialist Party) and attempting to set the building on fire with incendiary tear gas cannisters while over 100 men women and children were inside for a regular Wednesday night meeting of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement. The heroic actions of the African working class put out the fire at the Uhuru House and forced an army of colonial police to retreat . Gunshots from the community forced a police helicopter and airplane out of the sky. The Battle of St Pete was an example of serious guerilla warfare on the part of a colonized population that ended in a decisive military and political victory for the African working class and the African Revolution. November 13th, 1996 was a serious defeat for the global system of colonial capitalism that must be upheld by revolutionaries and freedom loving people who support self determination for the African community. In the era of mass protest and uprisings against police terror that have followed the murder of George Floyd it is critical that we internalize the lessons from this revolutionary victory that led to 8 years of not a single African person being murdered by the police in St Petersburg. Tune in to this first episode of a two part series on the Battle of St Pete and learn why this city is known as the City of African Resistance    

Today's episode features an interview with African People's Socialist Party member and Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Sandiego, Dr. Matsemela Odom. Dr. Odom and APSC Chairwoman Penny Hess take a look at the US Civil War through the eyes of the African working class and come to the conclusion that African people are their own liberators in the struggle for freedom from colonial slavery in all of its forms. Tune in on Black Power 96.3 FM in St Petersburg, UhuruSolidarity.podbean.com or wherever you listen to podcasts!      

ICYMI: Today we are revising part 2 of this special two-part episode of "White Lies Shattered" (listen to episode 1 here) we are honored to have on our show a very special guest: Elikya Ngoma, Haiti editor of the Burning Spear newspaper and member of the African People's Socialist Party. Penny Hess, Chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee and author of Overturning the Culture of Violence also returns to the program for this powerful discussion of the heroic legacy of the world's first successful anti-colonial workers' revolution: the African Revolution of Haiti.           

At the 45th anniversary of the African People's Solidarity Committee Chairwoman Penny Hess gave this profound presentation on the history and significance of the African People's Socialist Party forming the African People's Solidarity Committee in 1976.

Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee, speaks at the Uhuru Solidarity Movement National Convention in April, 2021, on the theme, "Make Wall Street Pay Reparations." 

On this episode of "White Lies Shattered," we continue our conversation with Elikya Ngoma, Haiti editor of the Burning Spear newspaper and member of the African People's Socialist Party, and Penny Hess, Chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee and author of Overturning the Culture of Violence. We discuss the heroic legacy of the world's first successful anti-colonial workers' revolution: the African Revolution of Haiti. 

African People's Solidarity Committee Chair Penny Hess speaks at the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations forum titled "Fascism, Neoliberalism and the Way Forward" on March 6, 2021.   The African People's Solidarity Committee is the white organization founded and led by the African People's Socialist Party to organize white people in solidarity with the African Revolution and the struggle for reparations.  More info is available at apscuhuru.org. 

  How the Haitian Revolution Changed the World: Featuring a discussion with Elikya Ngoma, the Haiti Editor of The Burning Spear newspaper and African People's Socialist Party member, and Penny Hess, Chair of the African People's Solidarity's Committee, on how the Haitian Revolution changed the world when African people in Haiti fought and won the first successful workers' and anti-colonial revolution in the world in 1804.

Penny Hess is the Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee and the author of Overturning the Culture of Violence.   Chairwoman Penny Hess delivered this speech on May 30th, 2021 at a webinar hosted by the All African People's Development and Empowerment Project titled, " Environmental Crisis: Colonial Capitalism vs. the Planet."

Episode 14 of White Lies Shattered features Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel exposing the horrors of the "second" slave trade of African people in the US. After 1808, the US officially banned the importation of African slaves from Africa but the the domestic slave trade, also known as the Second Middle Passage, saw an estimated 1 million African people marched, in death marches known as slave coffles, from the upper south to work in brutal conditions on plantations in the deep south

This presentation was recorded on June 12, 2021 at the first-ever conference of the Reparations Legacy Project, a campaign of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement working to win reparations from white individuals, corporations and businesses with access to wealth.  Penny Hess is the Chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee, the organization of white people working under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party to build the movement for white reparations to African people. Penny Hess joined the African People's Solidarity Committee at its founding conference in 1976 and has for the past forty five years worked under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party and Chairman Omali yeshitela to build white solidarity with black power. Chairwoman Penny is also the author of Overturning the Culture of Violence.

White Lies Shattered LIVE!   Enjoy this live webinar episode of the FM radio show and podcast: Reparations in Action, "White Lies Shattered," raising funds for Black Power 96.3 FM Radio during their July Fund Drive. Contribute at https://blackpower96.org/donate   Featuring - Penny Hess, African People's Solidarity Committee (APSC) Chair - Jesse Nevel, Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM) Chair - Jamie Simpson, Reparations in Action host - And some of the volunteers who help make the podcast a success like Marcell, Jackson and Mara.

Tune in tomorrow to a live webinar episode of Reparations in Action: White Lies Shattered podcast and radio show.   Tune in: https://youtube.com/uhurusolidarity https://facebook.com/uhurusolidarity   The webinar will look back at highlights of the last 12 episodes of White Lies Shattered, take viewers behind the scenes of the podcast and discuss what is coming in the future. If you are a fan of Reparations in Action, please tune in to this important fund drive for Black Power 96.3 FM in St. Petersburg, Florida - the community radio station run for and by the African working class.   Featuring regular guest Penny Hess, co-hosts Jesse Nevel and Jamie Simpson speaking with volunteers who help make the podcast a success, including Marcell, Jackson and Mara.   This episode is part of the Black Power 96.3 FM Radio July Fund Drive. LIVE on Wednesday, July 21st @ 7pm ET

This episode of "White Lies Shattered" features Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee, Penny Hess and Visiting Assistant Professor of Ehtnic Studies at the University of San Diego, Dr. Matsemela Odom vanquishing the lie that the academic ivory tower is a bastion of truth and justice. Hess and Odom use the historical record to make it abundantly clear that universities and colleges owe reparations to African people.