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IMARI ABUBAKARI OBADELE, I (1930-2010)
BlackPast
(2020)
Abstract
Imari Obadele, black power activist, reparations advocate, and college professor, is best known as co-founder of the Republic of New Afrika. Obadele was born Richard Bullock Henry on May 2, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His homemaker mother, Vera N. Robinson Henry, and his father, Walter Lester Henry, postal worker, and deacon at Christ Community and Union Baptist churches, were designated the 1966 “Family of the Year” by the Philadelphia Urban League. Raised with eleven siblings in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Philadelphia, Obadele was a Boy Scout and one of six blacks in his graduating class at the public all-male “People’s College,” Central High School. In the 1960s, he adopted the Yoruba name (“the king arrives at home”).
Keywords
- Republic of New Afrika,
- National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America,
- Group on Advanced Leadership
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring March 29, 2020
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will guzmán. "IMARI ABUBAKARI OBADELE, I (1930-2010)" BlackPast (2020) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/will-guzmn/8/
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