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AAPDEP's 2013 U.S. Tour - Forwarding the African Agenda

The All African People's Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) is excited to announce the US tour of its International Director, Dr. Aisha Fields, PhD. Full Story

Seeds of War: The Destruction of Seeds and Independent Farming in Africa!

Food sustainability issues raised during the All African People s Development and Empowerment Proj... Full Story

3rd Annual AAPDEP Conference is a success!

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audioAAPDEP School of Nursing: the 21st Century Black Cross Nurses

This week, host Nyabinga Dzimbahwe interviews Dr. Aisha Fields, Director of the All African People's... Full Story

videoHelp keep the 21st Century Black Cross Nurses' School open!

We need to raise $5000 by July 25th for our Nursing Institution. Find out why you should support by ... Full Story

AAPDEP Nursing Institution needs your immediate support!

On behalf of the International Executive Committee and our entire membership, I would like to th... Full Story

videoOne People! One Party! One Destiny! Every African on board! No one falls through the cracks!

On July 1, participants from over 40 sites around the world met to begin the "One People! One Party!... Full Story

Sponsor a project - invest in African-led initiatives in Sierra Leone

First we want to thank everyone who supported the Africa's Future in African Hands Tour (AFIAH). The tour traveled to nine cities in the U.S. and generated $12,542 towards our goal of $25,000. Full Story

videoSponsor a Project: Invest in African-led Initiatives

As a sponsor, you are an integral part of building the work of AAPDEP. Without your commitment, the ... Full Story

Birth justice for African women means an end to colonialism

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Summit of AAPDEP's International Executive Committee: Planning the Future of African-Led Development

AAPDEP, as a strategy of the African People's Socialist Party, can transform the relationship that Africans have to imperialism, eventually empowering the people enough to overthrow it. Full Story

AAPDEP-SL gaining momentum after the return of the AAPDEP international delegates

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Africa's Future in African Hands Tour, April - May, 2012

The international tour of Mary Koroma; a grassroots nurse-midwife from Sierra Leone, West Africa, who is successfully combating the highest maternal mortality rate in the world. Full Story

videoAfrican Internationalism on the ground in Sierra Leone

In January 2012 members of the All African People's Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) ... Full Story

AAPDEP leaders meet in Sierra Leone to organize and continue building for self-determination

Ayesha Fleary gives her personal account on her visit to Sierra Leone in January 2012 Full Story

AAPDEP projects make gains in Sierra Leone! (Photos)

On January 21, All-African People's Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) leaders traveled ... Full Story

audioAfrica's Future in Africa's Hands!

African People's Solidarity Committee organizer Harris Daniels speaks with All-African People's Deve... Full Story

videoHelp us Reach our $4000 Goal: African Self-Determination in Action

Note: While the date in the video has passed, the need for the resources for this very important ... Full Story

International NGOs serve imperialism; Africa needs own independent development organizations

International non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are global contractors, hired to execute the f... Full Story

$4000 needed to help send AAPDEP reps to Sierra Leone!

The All African People's Development & Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) is calling on all friends, members and supporters to help with urgently needed resources to send an AADPEP leadership contingent to Sierra Leone. Full Story

Uhuru Movement's Freedom Summer 2011 "Community Gardening" in slides

Africans build community gardens on the south side of St. Petersburg, FL. The Freedom Summer Proj... Full Story

Summer Project kicks off in St. Petersburg, Florida

ST PETERSBURG, FL Freedom Summer 2011, a month-long project organized to overturn the conditions... Full Story

AAPDEP Milwaukee builds self-reliance in the black community

MILWAUKEE Milwaukee s African community has been the scene of underdevelopment for many years. Full Story

Juneteenth "Proclamation" Not Yet Uhuru

HOUSTON On Sunday, June 19, 2011, a festive crowd gathered at the All African People's Development... Full Story

Samah Elsayed: Comrade of the Quarter!

Samah Elsayed has been a shining example of the tenacity necessary to build local branches of orga... Full Story

Youth Survival and Development Skills Retreat to empower black youth

When we hear of a Youth Retreat most words that come to mind are fun, relaxation and learning (... Full Story

videoDr. Aisha Fields speaks about the All African People's Development and Empowerment Project

Dr. Aisha Fields, Director of the All African People's Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) ... Full Story

AAPDEP-Sierra Leone U.S. Tour on Infant and Maternal Mortality raises medical supplies and cash to build clinic

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama On February 5, 2011, my children and I stood waiting inside the Nashville In... Full Story

Bumper summer crop projected for AAPDEP's 5TH Ward community garden in Houston

HOUSTON - From mid-March through the first two weekends in April, AAPDEP members and supporters worked diligently preparing the 5th Ward Community Garden for its summer 2011 planting. Full Story

Tour dates announced for AAPDEP’s "Stop the Hemorrhaging!" Tour

The All African People s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) is holding a tour during Black History Month to increase awareness and raise resources for a clinic in Sierra Leone, which suffers from the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world. Full Story

In Colombia, crisis deepens for Africans in flooded areas

COLOMBIA The incessant rains of the harsh winter in Colombia, are affecting the department of Ch... Full Story

Infant and maternal mortality: a war on African mothers and babies

The All African People s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) would like to announce its latest initiative a tour to raise resources for a maternity clinic in Sierra Leone. The tour will begin in February 2011. Full Story

AAPDEP DC: Taking charge of the development of our own communities

Along with the knowledge that development is coming to an African community often comes certain realizations. Full Story

Houston's One Africa! One Nation! Marketplace, Music Festival, and Block Party meets with success

Houston On Saturday October 30, 2010, the All African People s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) Fifth Ward Community Garden hosted The One Africa! One Nation! Marketplace, Block Party and Music Festival. Full Story

The One Africa! One Nation! Market Place, Block Party and Music Festival

HOUSTON On October 30, 12:00 pm, music will begin to fill the air, as festivities of the One Africa! One Nation! Market Place, Big Block Party and Music Festival will kick off at the 5th Ward Community Garden at 3707 Brill Street, near Collingworth. Full Story

Houston’s 5th Ward AAPDEP Community Garden gains support as fall crop is planted – October 30 African festival announced

On Saturday, October 9, community residents and AAPDEP members came together at the 5th Ward Community Garden and Food Co-op, in the heart of Fifth Ward at 3703 Brill Street to break dirt and plant seeds in an all-day work project to plant its fall crop. Full Story

AAPDEP's 5th Ward Garden autumn planting under way in Houston

HOUSTON On Saturday, September 18, 2010, the All African People's Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) and community members came together at the Fifth Ward Community Garden and Food Co-op to clear its rows of summer s growth and prepare for a bumper fall crop. Full Story

Fifth Ward Garden growing by onions and tomatoes

HOUSTON-During the March 14 Time to Till event, members of Houston s All African People s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) came with shovels, tillers, hoes, rakes, and an assortment of other garden tools. The Fifth Ward Community Garden and Food Co-Op was only an idea of its organizers. Full Story

The Jamaican struggle: the crisis of imperialism

Since Sunday May 23 citizens of Kingston, Jamaica neighborhood, Tivoli Gardens, have been waging a fierce struggle against U.S. attempts to extradite a man the governments of Jamaica and U.S. have labeled one of the world s most dangerous narcotics kingpins. Full Story

Houston’s Fifth Ward Community Garden and Food Co-op

Houston Since the March 14, 2010 tilling of the land at 3707 Brill Street in Houston s Fifth Ward and subsequent planting of seeds and nursing the garden, it will not be long before neighbors in this African neighborhood will be reaping what they sow. Full Story

Gates’ intellectual assault on Reparations and the war of ideas

While we have sell-outs like Henry Louis Gates who is trying to share the blame between Africans a... Full Story

AAPDEP community garden in Houston, Texas

HOUSTON--On Sunday, March 14, 2010, members and supporters of the All African People's Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) gathered in 5th Ward of Houston, Texas for its opening project, a "Time To Till." The Time to Till was the initial step in AAPDEP's effort to build a viable community garden, food co-op and flea market which will serve the African community in Houston. Full Story

Deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The story of the exploitation of Africa's resources for the benefit of a few is sadly an all too familiar tale across the continent. Despite the wealth of resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the country is mired in poverty and conflict. Full Story

Looking to Cochabamba : Where we really stand after Copenhagen

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Analyzing the UN Climate Change Summit

Analyzing the UN Climate Change Summit Full Story

Building AAPDEP from the ground up

The 3rd annual All African People's Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) National Conference was held January 16-17 in St. Petersburg, FL and opened with the raising of our flag; the red, black and green. Full Story

AAPDEP, INPDUM call for worldwide African relief effort to Haiti

With the death rate rising daily and the suffering faced by African people in Haiti deepening daily following Tuesday s 7.0 earthquake, the All African People s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) and the International People s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) held a press conference today at the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg. Dr. Aisha Fields, chair of AAPDEP opened the conference with a powerful statement published below. Full Story

Omali Yeshitela travels to Sierra Leone for historic conference of African workers

Omali Yeshitela, leader of the Uhuru Movement and Chair of the Black is Back Coalition for Social ... Full Story

Bill Gates launches attacks on Africa's food production

On October 15, 2009, Bill Gates, the co-chair of the Gates Foundation announced his $120 million g... Full Story

Omali Yeshitela speaks in Houston, October 18-19

HOUSTON On October 18th and 19th, the SHAPE Community Center in keeping with its historical miss... Full Story

AAPDEP in Motion!

For a while now the All African People s Development and Empowerment Project s (AAPDEP) website ha... Full Story

Local AAPDEP Comittee Formed in Oakland, California

The African Village Survival Initiative (AVSI) conference was held at the Uhuru House in Oakland, Ca... Full Story

Opportunist uses unity with Zimbabwe land struggle to hustle Africans

In September 2007, the African People s Socialist Party (APSP) formed the All African People s Dev... Full Story

Uhuru Movement launches the African Village Survival Initiative

Food, water, energy and self-sustaining economic institutions in the African community are the foc... Full Story

African Village Survival Initiative Conference provides solutions to economic crisis

Community gardens, solar energy and self-sufficient economic institutions will be the focus of the f... Full Story