Reparations in Action

On this episode of "White Lies Shattered," we continue our conversation with Elikya Ngoma, Haiti editor of the Burning Spear newspaper and member of the African People's Socialist Party, and Penny Hess, Chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee and author of Overturning the Culture of Violence. We discuss the heroic legacy of the world's first successful anti-colonial workers' revolution:...

African People's Solidarity Committee Chair Penny Hess speaks at the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations forum titled "Fascism, Neoliberalism and the Way Forward" on March 6, 2021.   The African People's Solidarity Committee is the white organization founded and led by the African People's Socialist Party to organize white people in solidarity with the African Revolut...

  How the Haitian Revolution Changed the World: Featuring a discussion with Elikya Ngoma, the Haiti Editor of The Burning Spear newspaper and African People's Socialist Party member, and Penny Hess, Chair of the African People's Solidarity's Committee, on how the Haitian Revolution changed the world when African people in Haiti fought and won the first successful workers' and anti-colonial revolut...

Penny Hess is the Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee and the author of Overturning the Culture of Violence.   Chairwoman Penny Hess delivered this speech on May 30th, 2021 at a webinar hosted by the All African People's Development and Empowerment Project titled, " Environmental Crisis: Colonial Capitalism vs. the Planet."

Episode 14 of White Lies Shattered features Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel exposing the horrors of the "second" slave trade of African people in the US. After 1808, the US officially banned the importation of African slaves from Africa but the the domestic slave trade, also known as the Second Middle Passage, saw an estimated 1 million African people marched, in death marches known as slave coffles, f...

This presentation was recorded on June 12, 2021 at the first-ever conference of the Reparations Legacy Project, a campaign of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement working to win reparations from white individuals, corporations and businesses with access to wealth.  Penny Hess is the Chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee, the organization of white people working under the leadership of the Af...

White Lies Shattered LIVE!   Enjoy this live webinar episode of the FM radio show and podcast: Reparations in Action, "White Lies Shattered," raising funds for Black Power 96.3 FM Radio during their July Fund Drive. Contribute at https://blackpower96.org/donate   Featuring - Penny Hess, African People's Solidarity Committee (APSC) Chair - Jesse Nevel, Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM) Chair - Jamie...

Tune in tomorrow to a live webinar episode of Reparations in Action: White Lies Shattered podcast and radio show.   Tune in: https://youtube.com/uhurusolidarity https://facebook.com/uhurusolidarity   The webinar will look back at highlights of the last 12 episodes of White Lies Shattered, take viewers behind the scenes of the podcast and discuss what is coming in the future. If you are a fan of Re...

This episode of "White Lies Shattered" features Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee, Penny Hess and Visiting Assistant Professor of Ehtnic Studies at the University of San Diego, Dr. Matsemela Odom vanquishing the lie that the academic ivory tower is a bastion of truth and justice. Hess and Odom use the historical record to make it abundantly clear that universities and college...

This presentation was recorded on November 8th, 2020 in Washington DC at the annual conference of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations. Penny Hess is the Chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee, the organization of white people working under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party to build the movement for white reparations to African peop...

Tune in Friday, June 25th at 3pm EST on Black Power 96.3 FM in St Petersburg for Reparations in Action: White Lies Shattered series episode 10 and the third part of Penny Hess eradicating the lie that the white man discovered America and settled the west. In Episode 10 of "White Lies Shattered," Chairwoman Penny and USM Chair Jesse Nevel take a close look at the genocidal horrors settler coloniali...

Host Jamie Simpson welcomes back APSC Chairwoman Penny Hess and USM Chair Jesse Nevel for Episode 9 of "White Lies Shattered," a harrowing tour of the genocide carried out against the Indigenous people through the infamous Trail of Tears and the unspeakable slaughter committed in the name of colonialism during the so-called gold rush that resulted in California becoming a state. This episode also...

This episode examines the genocide waged against the indigenous people of North America. From Georgia to California, this bloody legacy was the origin of white America and many of the lies we tell ourselves as white North Americans, told to cover up the ugly truth of what it means to be a settler colonist society. Hess and Nevel discuss the brutal history of extermination of the traditional custod...

Did you know that the city government of St. Petersburg, Florida destroyed a black community in the 1980s  This episode features interviews with African People's Socialist Party Department of Agitprop director and former St. Petersburg city council candidate Akile Anai (AKA Eritha Akile Cainion), APSP member Themba Tshibanda and Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair and former St. Petersburg mayoral can...

Episode 6 of, “Reparations in Action: White Lies Shattered," airs Today - Friday, April 23rd, from 3-4 pm EST on Black Power 96.3 FM, St. Petersburg. This week, host Jamie Simpson welcomes back Penny Hess to obliterate the colonial myth that “The American Revolution was a fight for liberty from tyranny." Episode 6 will remove the mists of idealism from the so-called American Revolution and examine...

Episode 5 of “Reparations in Action: White Lies Shattered" airs Friday, April 9th from 3-4 pm EST on Black Power 96.3 FM, St. Petersburg. This edition features Penny Hess ripping to shreds the white lie that, "It's not about race, it's about class." Tune to hear the African Internationalist response to this colonizer white left denial of the colonial contradiction as expressed through opportunisti...

Episode 4: Shattering the lie that capitalism was born as a benign and progressive system Reparations in Action: White Lies Shattered Series Podcast and FM radio show continues Friday, March 19th at 3pm EST with Episode 4 in which Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee, destroys the lie that capitalism was born as a benign and progressive system in Europe and only late...

    On Episode 3 of "White Lies Shattered," co-hosts Jamie Simpson and Jesse Nevel use the political theory and historical analysis of African Internationalism to expose and destroy the white nationalist lie that "Africans sold themselves into slavery," a foul and slanderous lie propagated by imperialism to blame African people for their own oppression and attempt to discredit the righteous strugg...

Episode 2: Shattering the white lie that "Europeans discovered the world in the Age of Exploration."  Reparations in Action Host Jamie Simpson welcomes African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) Chairwoman Penny Hess, author of the book Overturning the Culture of Violence and Uhuru Solidarity Movement Chair Jesse Nevel to explore the genocidal history of colonial capitalism. On Friday, February...

Episode 1: Shattering the white lie that "Europeans brought civilization to the world" On the premiere episode of "White Lies Shattered," a special series hosted by Reparations in Action, Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee explores the genocidal origins of capitalism and uproot the lies white people tell ourselves about slavery, colonialism and how Europe and the w...

On today's episode we interview four members of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement - Claudet Yavrom from San Diego, California, Mads Ambrose from Portland, Oregon, Halley Murray from Boston, Massachusetts, and Len Demmer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - about the historic six-state-wide March for Reparations to African People that took place on last Saturday, October 17th and was part of a U.S.-wide c...

On today's episode we interview Bakari Olatunji, Western Regional Party Representative of the African People’s Socialist Party, Vice Chair in Uhuru Foods & Pies, Sales and Distributor for the Pies Campaign; based in Oakland, California, about the recent re-opening of the case of Oscar Grant who was murdered by Oakland police 11 years ago. We also discuss the ongoing struggle for Black Community Co...

On today's episode begin with a report back from a recent political action coordinated by the Uhuru Solidarity Movement here in St. Petersburg, Florida. In response to escalating tensions between mostly white protestors in downtown St. Petersburg and a group of pro-police, pro-Trump “MAGA motorcycle” caravan called “Blue Thunder,” The Uhuru Solidarity Movement announced a Rally Against White Natio...

On today's episode we had an incredibly powerful discussion with Secretary General of the African Socialist International, Luwezi Kinshasa, joining us from London. Secretary General Luwezi Kinshasa is a brilliant leader, speaker and writer whose political leadership in building the African People’s Socialist Party worldwide is felt throughout Europe, Africa, the Bahamas and elsewhere. SG Luwezi’s...

On Friday of last week news broke of the passing of 87-year-old supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Though tributes to Ginsburg’s supposed legacy as a champion of women’s rights have flooded news stations and social media feeds, other commentators from the African and Indigenous communities have pointed out that Ginsburg’s record as a supreme court justice holds a different meaning for the...