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Omali Yeshitela (born Joseph Waller on October 9, 1941) is an American political activist and author. He is a co-founder and current chairman of the African People's Socialist Party (formed in 1972) which leads the Uhuru Movement .
In 2024, four leading APSP members, including APSP chairman Omali Yeshitela, were convicted of conspiring to act as unregistered foreign agents of the Russian government, but were found not guilty of acting as agents of Russia. [4] Notable APSP members include Omali Yeshitela, who has been APSP chairman since 1972. [3] [5]: 316 [6] [1]
Yeshitela, Hess and fellow defendant Jesse Nevel face up to 15 years in prison if convicted of the conspiracy and foreign agent registration charge. The fourth defendant, Augustus Romain, could get a maximum of five years if convicted of the registration count. The trial is expected to last up to four weeks. 09/03/2024 19:14 -0400
Among those charged is Omali Yeshitela, the 82-year-old chairman of the U.S.-based organization focused on Black empowerment and the effort to obtain reparations for slavery and what it considers the past genocide of Africans. The government also charged Penny Hess, 78, and Jesse Nevel, 34, two leaders of branches of the group’s white allies.
Joseph Waller, Jr., also known as Omali Yeshitela, was a former member and organizer of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). During the 1950s and 1960s, he actively participated in the American Civil Rights Movement. [2]
Although the production was derided by some critics as a "dull musical backdrop", [10] Let's Get Free was called a "return to politically conscious rap". [11] Rolling Stone gave the album four stars and lauded its equation of "classrooms with jail cells, the projects with killing fields and everything from water to television with conduits for brainwashing by the system".
Notable speakers have included the Jamaican academic Dr. Richard Hart, Maria Florez, the Cuban ambassador to Britain, representatives of the South African African National Congress and Pan-African Congress, and the Florida human-rights activist Omali Yeshitela.
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