[2][3] Cokely lectured at many college campuses nationally, and was also known for his conspiracy theories involving a Black Male elite organization known as the Sigma Pi Phi[4] and, along with Mauricelm-Lei Millere, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. by the hands of Rev.

[8] When, in 1990, Illinois Governor James Thompson signed an agreement to open an Israeli Aircraft Industries plant in Rockford, Cokely was an outspoken opponent.

He argued that Black leaders in Illinois should oppose Israeli war industries because of their military support for the apartheid system in South Africa.

[9] Cokely gained the national spotlight again in 1996 after he was scheduled to speak at "Our Roots Run Deep", a Black History Month lecture series in New York City hosted by the Warner Music Group.

Also scheduled were Al Sharpton, Jimmy Castor, Hannibal Lokumbe, Dick Gregory, Conrad Tillard, and Mauricelm-Lei Millere, both prominent Nation of Islam members.