# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/omali-yeshitela
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:04:11.848Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/omali-yeshitela"
name: "Omali Yeshitela"
slug: "omali-yeshitela"
description: "Omali Yeshitela is an American far-left political activist and author. Ideologically a Pan-Africanist and African socialist, he is a co-founder and current chairman of the African People's Socialist Party. Yeshitela has advocated for reparations for African Americans due to the slavery of Black people, which lasted from 1619 to 1865 in the United States and Jim Crow laws, which lasted from 1877 to 1965."
tagline: "American politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ChairmanOmali.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1941-10-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.31
  momentum:             0.5723204994797086
  historical:           6.169909333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://apspuhuru.org"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a46764d6-f67b-4abc-af61-68496ac9f62d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "أومالي يشيتيلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omali_Yeshitela"
    title: "Omali Yeshitela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omali_Yeshitela"
    title: "Omali Yeshitela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omali_Yeshitela"
    title: "Omali Yeshitela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omali_Yeshitela"
    title: "Omali Yeshitela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omali_Yeshitela"
    title: "Omali Yeshitela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3351810"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump