Reparations in Action

Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee, speaks at the Uhuru Solidarity Movement National Convention in April, 2021, on the theme, "Make Wall Street Pay Reparations." 

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: the African Revolution of Haiti. 

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 revolution in the world in 1804.

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, from the upper south to work in brutal conditions on plantations in the deep south

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 African People's Socialist Party to build the movement for white reparations to African people. Penny Hess joined the African People’s Solidarity Committee at its founding conference in 1976 and has for the past forty five years worked under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party and Chairman Omali yeshitela to build white solidarity with black power. Chairwoman Penny is also the author of Overturning the Culture of Violence.

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 colleges owe reparations to African people.