"[7] The Uhuru Movement's political theory is African internationalism, which argues that capitalism was born parasitic through the attack on Africa and its people.

It refers to African people who live inside what it views as imperialist centers, such as the United States and Europe, as an "internal (or domestic) colony".

During the meeting, several Black nationalist organizations declared the importance of, and the need for developing greater unity between pro-Black independence and prison forces.

Additionally, the participants at the meeting established five principles as the basis for forming the ANPO, which were self-determination, political independence, anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, and self-defense.

Although ASI pursues pan-Africanism, its primary aim is socialist revolution led by the African working class.

[15][16] APSP chairman Omali Yeshitela has argued that African people worldwide are due reparations for more than slavery, but also over 500 years of colonialism and neocolonialism.

On October 25, 1996, riots in St. Petersburg, Florida erupted after a White police officer shot and killed a young, unarmed Black man driving a stolen car.

[5] In 2004, Uhuru chairman Omali Yeshitela tore down a Halloween display in St. Petersburg, Florida, which depicted "a stuffed figure hung by the neck on a homemade gallows".

", alleging that he was not speaking out for Africans on issues such as police brutality, high unemployment, predatory lending, and Hurricane Katrina.

[26] In 2009, the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) organized a march in support of Lovelle Mixon and against the Oakland Police Department.

[27][28] In 2015, at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, the General Students' Committee (AStA) broke apart in April 2015 as a consequence of internal dispute over purported antisemitism after having organized an information event about the Uhuru Movement on JGU campus in January.

[30] In 2022, APSP and Uhuru supported Russia's invasion and occupation of eastern Ukraine,[31][32] which it views as a "defensive war against the world colonial powers" and an appropriate response to NATO expansion.

An FBI Tampa Special agent said that "The facts and circumstances surrounding this indictment are some of the most egregious and blatant violations we've seen by the Russian government in order to destabilize and undermine trust in American Democracy.

[45] In October 2024, four leading members of APSP and Uhuru, including chairman Yeshitela, were convicted in federal court of conspiring to act as unregistered foreign agents of the Russian government.

APSP members were found guilty on conspiring with Aleksandr Ionov to interfere in U.S. elections and sow social division in the United States.

[4] In December 2024, Yeshitela and two other defendants avoided prison time in the Uhuru-Russian case when District Judge William Jung sentenced them to three years of probation.