Keynote Speaker, Omali Yeshitela
Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party-USA and leader of the Uhuru Movement

For the majority of his life, Yeshitela has been a powerful speaker, leader and proponent of one united and liberated Africa as the birthright of every African worldwide.

Speaking throughout Africa, Europe and the U.S., Yeshitela continues the unfinished legacy of Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and Kwame Nkrumah. A brilliant theoretician, he has authored several books including One Africa! One Nation!

Glen Ford
Executive Editor of the Black Agenda Report and a leading member of the Black is Back Coalition for Peace, Social Justice and Reparations

Ford has had a long career as a radio host and commentator. He is the author of "The Big Lie: An Analysis of U.S. Media Coverage of the Grenada Invasion" and of countless articles and radio editorials on the oppression of African people and exposing the truth about the Obama administration.

Penny Hess
Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee (APSC)

APSC builds support from the white community for the call for reparations to African people and for the movement for the liberation of Africa and African people.

Hess is author of Overturning the Culture of Violence, a book telling the true story of America’s history built on slavery and genocide and exposing white complicity with the oppression of African people.