White Solidarity with Black Power
Reparations Legacy Project! - Urgent Call to all Donors
Uhuru Greetings!
Thank you for your ongoing commitment to the stand for reparations to African people. The Reparations Legacy Project is initiating an urgent call for donations to raise $25,000 by the end of June. This is especially critical in the aftermath of a devastating tornado that destroyed thousands of homes in the African working class community in North St. Louis where the Black Power Blueprint is located.
With your support, the Black Power Blueprint has been working for years to build political and economic power in the North side of St. Louis, one of the most economically depressed areas in the country due to generations of colonial attacks by the city government that deliberately undermined the infrastructure with a “let it rot” policy called the “Team 4 plan.” As Chairman Omali Yeshitela has stated, “The devastation didn’t start with the tornado.”
For decades, the city government has prioritized investment in the predominantly white South side and downtown areas and adopted a vicious policy of police containment and so-called “benign neglect” in the African community. Now, the mayor and government officials are exploiting this disaster to further gentrify the Black community, imposing a police curfew and sticking red tags condemning buildings and threatening to prosecute African people for staying in their own homes.
The Black Power Blueprint immediately launched a tornado relief campaign in the face of the destruction of over 5,000 buildings and homes and left over 100,000 without power in the heart of the African community. Hundreds of volunteers and the whole community came together to remove trees from the streets, board up windows, and distribute free food and supplies.
Black Power Blueprint programs and buildings were damaged by the tornado, but the Black Power Blueprint is moving forward to rebuild stronger than ever. The city government has a billion dollars at its disposal, and not a dime has been made available to the African community. The Uhuru House has been the center of a massive daily giveaway of food and supplies to address the needs of the community.
Urgently needed is $25,000 to continue the growth of the Black Power Blueprint’s unique programs for economic development and self-determination, including:
The Uhuru House Community Center, where the community comes together for political education, meetings, and entertainment.
The Gary Brooks Black Power Community Garden provides weekly vegetables and herbs for the community.
The Workforce Program Housing for African people coming out of the prison system, where they are not only given housing, but job training and employment.
The Community Basketball Court has become a popular site for community youth.
The African Doula Training Program, where 14 African women received doula training to work with the north side community, which has a 97% African population.
The Uhuru Bakery & Cafe has won its permit to begin running as a food source for the community, serving healthy African comfort food as well as Uhuru’s signature pies.
Please watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRRkrbifrVQ for more information about the Black Power Blueprint.
Making a contribution to the Black Power Blueprint at this critical time is a stand of solidarity with African people’s right to live in their neighborhoods and build political and economic power in their own hands. We are asking you to consider donating towards the $25,000 goal for June. You can contribute online at blackpowerblueprint.org/donate or by check, donor-advised funds, or stocks. We would be happy to meet with you to discuss how you can be a part of the Black Power Blueprint’s campaign to “Bring Power Back to North St. Louis.”
Thank you for your consideration.
Cara Locke
Uhuru Greetings!
Thank you for your ongoing commitment to the stand for reparations to African people. The Reparations Legacy Project is initiating an urgent call for donations to raise $25,000 by the end of June. This is especially critical in the aftermath of a devastating tornado that destroyed thousands of homes in the African working class community in North St. Louis where the Black Power Blueprint is located.
With your support, the Black Power Blueprint has been working for years to build political and economic power in the North side of St. Louis, one of the most economically depressed areas in the country due to generations of colonial attacks by the city government that deliberately undermined the infrastructure with a “let it rot” policy called the “Team 4 plan.” As Chairman Omali Yeshitela has stated, “The devastation didn’t start with the tornado.”
For decades, the city government has prioritized investment in the predominantly white South side and downtown areas and adopted a vicious policy of police containment and so-called “benign neglect” in the African community. Now, the mayor and government officials are exploiting this disaster to further gentrify the Black community, imposing a police curfew and sticking red tags condemning buildings and threatening to prosecute African people for staying in their own homes.
The Black Power Blueprint immediately launched a tornado relief campaign in the face of the destruction of over 5,000 buildings and homes and left over 100,000 without power in the heart of the African community. Hundreds of volunteers and the whole community came together to remove trees from the streets, board up windows, and distribute free food and supplies.
Black Power Blueprint programs and buildings were damaged by the tornado, but the Black Power Blueprint is moving forward to rebuild stronger than ever. The city government has a billion dollars at its disposal, and not a dime has been made available to the African community. The Uhuru House has been the center of a massive daily giveaway of food and supplies to address the needs of the community.
Urgently needed is $25,000 to continue the growth of the Black Power Blueprint’s unique programs for economic development and self-determination, including:
The Uhuru House Community Center, where the community comes together for political education, meetings, and entertainment.
The Gary Brooks Black Power Community Garden provides weekly vegetables and herbs for the community.
The Workforce Program Housing for African people coming out of the prison system, where they are not only given housing, but job training and employment.
The Community Basketball Court has become a popular site for community youth.
The African Doula Training Program, where 14 African women received doula training to work with the north side community, which has a 97% African population.
The Uhuru Bakery & Cafe has won its permit to begin running as a food source for the community, serving healthy African comfort food as well as Uhuru’s signature pies.
Please watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRRkrbifrVQ for more information about the Black Power Blueprint.
Making a contribution to the Black Power Blueprint at this critical time is a stand of solidarity with African people’s right to live in their neighborhoods and build political and economic power in their own hands. We are asking you to consider donating towards the $25,000 goal for June. You can contribute online at blackpowerblueprint.org/donate or by check, donor-advised funds, or stocks. We would be happy to meet with you to discuss how you can be a part of the Black Power Blueprint’s campaign to “Bring Power Back to North St. Louis.”
Thank you for your consideration.
Cara Locke
Uhuru Greetings!
Thank you for your ongoing commitment to the stand for reparations to African people. The Reparations Legacy Project is initiating an urgent call for donations to raise $25,000 by the end of June. This is especially critical in the aftermath of a devastating tornado that destroyed thousands of homes in the African working class community in North St. Louis where the Black Power Blueprint is located.
With your support, the Black Power Blueprint has been working for years to build political and economic power in the North side of St. Louis, one of the most economically depressed areas in the country due to generations of colonial attacks by the city government that deliberately undermined the infrastructure with a “let it rot” policy called the “Team 4 plan.” As Chairman Omali Yeshitela has stated, “The devastation didn’t start with the tornado.”
For decades, the city government has prioritized investment in the predominantly white South side and downtown areas and adopted a vicious policy of police containment and so-called “benign neglect” in the African community. Now, the mayor and government officials are exploiting this disaster to further gentrify the Black community, imposing a police curfew and sticking red tags condemning buildings and threatening to prosecute African people for staying in their own homes.
The Black Power Blueprint immediately launched a tornado relief campaign in the face of the destruction of over 5,000 buildings and homes and left over 100,000 without power in the heart of the African community. Hundreds of volunteers and the whole community came together to remove trees from the streets, board up windows, and distribute free food and supplies.
Black Power Blueprint programs and buildings were damaged by the tornado, but the Black Power Blueprint is moving forward to rebuild stronger than ever. The city government has a billion dollars at its disposal, and not a dime has been made available to the African community. The Uhuru House has been the center of a massive daily giveaway of food and supplies to address the needs of the community.
Urgently needed is $25,000 to continue the growth of the Black Power Blueprint’s unique programs for economic development and self-determination, including:
The Uhuru House Community Center, where the community comes together for political education, meetings, and entertainment.
The Gary Brooks Black Power Community Garden provides weekly vegetables and herbs for the community.
The Workforce Program Housing for African people coming out of the prison system, where they are not only given housing, but job training and employment.
The Community Basketball Court has become a popular site for community youth.
The African Doula Training Program, where 14 African women received doula training to work with the north side community, which has a 97% African population.
The Uhuru Bakery & Cafe has won its permit to begin running as a food source for the community, serving healthy African comfort food as well as Uhuru’s signature pies.
Please watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRRkrbifrVQ for more information about the Black Power Blueprint.
Making a contribution to the Black Power Blueprint at this critical time is a stand of solidarity with African people’s right to live in their neighborhoods and build political and economic power in their own hands. We are asking you to consider donating towards the $25,000 goal for June. You can contribute online at blackpowerblueprint.org/donate or by check, donor-advised funds, or stocks. We would be happy to meet with you to discuss how you can be a part of the Black Power Blueprint’s campaign to “Bring Power Back to North St. Louis.”
Thank you for your consideration.
Cara Locke
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Reparations to The Black Power Blueprint
Uhuru Solidarity Movement raises reparations for the Black Power Blueprint, the anti-colonial program building political and economic power in the hands of the African working class in North St. Louis.
Our Leadership
USM was formed by and is accountable to the African People’s Socialist Party and Chairman Omali Yeshitela.
USM was formed by and is accountable to the African People’s Socialist Party and Chairman Omali Yeshitela.
USM was formed by and is accountable to the African People’s Socialist Party and Chairman Omali Yeshitela.
Campaigns
Reparations Legacy Project
Under the slogan, “Repair the damage. Return the stolen wealth. Fund Black Liberation”, the Reparations Legacy Project calls on white individuals, organizations and businesses invested in social change to support Black community-led economic development and self-determination programs.
Political Education
The Black Power Blueprint is a joint project of Black Star Industries and the African People's Education and Defense Fund, renovating properties and developing programs on the North Side of St. Louis that build political and economic power in the hands of the Black working class.
Chairman Omali Yeshitela is the founder and leader of the Uhuru Movement, Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party which leads all of the work of APSC and USM. Chairman Omali Yeshitela hosts a weekly Sunday political education series called #OmaliTaughtMe.
Penny Hess, Chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee, has been organizing on the front lines for white reparations to African people under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party since the founding of APSC in 1976. Penny Hess is also the author of Overturning the Culture of Violence.
Reparations in Action's podcast series "White Lies Shattered" features host Jamie Simpson, APSC Chairwoman Penny Hess and USM Chair Jesse Nevel addressing the lies of imperialist history and setting the record straight with the revolutionary worldview of African Internationalism.
Uhuru Solidarity Movement and the African People's Solidarity Committee host webinars addressing the key political questions of our time from the point of view of African Internationalism, the political theory of Chairman Omali Yeshitela.
The Burning Spear newspaper is the official journal of the African People's Socialist Party which has been in publication since 1966, the longest running African Revolutionary newspaper in existence.
