 Yuhuru members studied Marx, Lenin, Mao, Fanon, Malcolm X, Robert F. Williams, Che, and many others. They attended Socialist Workers' Party's weekly forums, listened to members of the Communist Party, and followers of C.L.R. James. In 1964, when Grace Boggs and Reverend Albert Lee were instrumental in developing a strong statewide Freedom Now party, some members of Yuhuru were organizers for it.