Yeshitela belongs to what historian Donna Murch calls "the Black Power Generation", black working-class activists who came of age between the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X.
Yeshitela is less than two months younger than Till and was 13 years old when the 14-year-old Till was lynched in Drew, Mississippi on August 28, 1955. Yeshitela has noted that the lynching of Till impacted his worldview, and the worldview of Black People in the United States.
He is a co-founder and current chairman of the African
People's Socialist Party (formed in 1972) which leads the Uhuru Movement.
Yeshitela has advocated for reparations as a "People's Advocate" at
the First International Tribunal on Reparations to Black People in the U.S.,
held in Brooklyn, New York, in 1982.
In (pre Donald Trump) September 2024 Yeshitela was convicted in U.S. federal
court of conspiring to act as an agent of the Russian government. Yeshitela
conspired with Alexander Ionov, a Russian agent taking directions from the FSB
to spread pro-Russian propaganda in the United States. In December 2024,
Yeshitela was sentenced to three years' probation and 300 hours of community
service.
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