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Omali Yeshitela at Black Is Back: Creating A Broad Social Movement Based in Our Black Communties
Bill Quigley
03 Feb 2010
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Omali Yeshitela of the Uhuru Movement, convenors of the January 2010 Black Is Back conference in St. Petersburg explains that the 21st century successor to the Freedom Movement must be a broad social movement firmly rooted, among other places, in black America, and describes a little of what that looks like.

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