Uhuru Convention Mobilizes For Black Reparations: “We’re Coming For What’s Ours!”

The International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) has popularized the demand for Black Reparations through community campaigns since its founding in 1991.  

On November 14-15, 2026, InPDUM will hold its annual Convention at the Uhuru House in St. Louis, Missouri. 

This year’s Convention marks the 30th anniversary of “The Battle of St. Pete” where the Black community repelled a 300-strong military assault on an organizing meeting at the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Presenters at the Convention include:

• African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela, who began his political life in the 1960s as a field organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee registering Black voters in the south and went on to build the African liberation struggle worldwide.
• Roger Wareham of the December 12th Movement, reparations fighter responsible for mobilizing hundreds of African people to participate in the 2001 United Nations Durban Conference resulting in the U.N.’s resolution supporting reparations to African people. 
• N’nanda (Robin Rue Simmons), Evanston City Councilmember who led the effort to win a reparations payment of $25,000 for each African residing in Evanston, Illinois, during a period of forced relocation. Now the DOJ is suing the city of Evanston for “racial discrimination” against white people. 
• Dr. Paula Starnes, a teacher in Springfield, Massachusetts. A whistleblower and fighter for Black student rights and inclusion, she faced assault charges when a Putnam administrator said that Starnes was staring threateningly, i.e. “reckless eyeballing” a white woman.
• Penny Hess, Chairwoman of African People’s Solidarity Committee celebrating 50 years of work under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party to organize white reparations to the Black community. 
• Organizers from the African continent reporting on work to unite and liberate the African Nation.

This InPDUM Convention will continue to mobilize the masses of African people to fight for reparations. Its rallying theme is “From Brooklyn, NY to Durban, South Africa, $131 Trillion is owed in Reparations. We plan to govern and we’re coming for what’s ours!”

The Convention will take place in Akwaaba Hall at the Uhuru House, 4101 W. Florissant Ave., in North St. Louis. For more information, contact info@inpdum.org or 314-380-8016.

More information and discussion about the InPDUM Convention, can be found in the November 9th episode of One Africa Worldview on The Burning Spear TV YouTube channel.