About Organizations
Black Panther Party
Black Liberation Army
American Indian Movement
FALN
Weather Underground
Earth Liberation Front
Animal Liberation Front
MOVE
Republic of New Afrika
Symbionese Liberation Army
Los Macheteros
United Freedom Front
May 19th Communist Organization
Young Lords
George Jackson Brigade
Students for a Democratic Society
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Industrial Workers of the World
Communist Party USA
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Brown Berets
Socialist Workers Party
African People's Socialist Party
Nation of Islam
About Republic of New Afrika
Black Government Conference & RNA Founding
Declaration of Independence & Provisional Government
New Bethel Incident
New Bethel Acquittals
Relocation toward Mississippi Organizing
Jackson, Mississippi Shootout
RNA-11 Prosecutions
Imari Obadele’s Imprisonment
The Continuing New Afrikan Prisoner Tradition
IMARI OBADELE’S IMPRISONMENT
Imari Abubakari Obadele (born Richard Henry), co-founder and president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika, was among those imprisoned after the 1971 Jackson raid, convicted on federal charges arising from the shootout. He served years in federal prison, becoming one of the most prominent New Afrikan political prisoners.
After his release Obadele earned a doctorate and became a scholar and organizer, co-founding the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA) and continuing to press the RNA's demands for independence and reparations. His imprisonment and later career linked the RNA's 1970s struggle to the enduring reparations movement.