Human Rights & Justice

Human Rights and Justice Episode 84 is  special programming on Radio Free Palestine, in commemoration of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948.  It features an interview by WPFW Pacifica radio host Nkechi Taifa with Jamil Dakwar, human rights attorney and adjunct professor at New York University.  He is speaking in his individual capacity. Broadcast May 15, 2024

Human Rights and Justice Episode 103 with host Nkechi Taifa invites you to experience the peaceful serenity of Brother Veronza Bowers, finally free after being imprisoned for 51 years. This impromtu interview was recorded in person in July 2024, several months after his release from federal prison, and explores aspects of his background growing up in Jim Crow/Apartheid America, stories from his pr...

On Sept. 12th Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) and two others were  found not guilty of charges of being agents of the Russian government. Despite being a stalwart self-determination revolutionary for over 50 years, Yeshitela was accused of working under the direction and control of the Russian government.  The verdict is in - the U.S. government lied and lo...

Author of newly published book, “Jailing a Rainbow: the Unjust Trial and Conviction of Marcus Garvey," distinguished legal scholar and professor at Howard University School of Law and Commissioner on the U.N. Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, Attorney Justin Hansford illuminates the political motivations and prejudices that led to the unjust trial and conviction of Marcus Garvey f...

Episode 100 of Human Rights and Justice features Mama C, aka Charlotte Hill O’Neal, aka Iya Osotunde Fasuyi.  Mama C is a former Member of the Black Panther Party of Kansas City, wife of Brother Mzee Pete’ O’Neal exiled from the U.S., both living in Tanzania for over 50 years.  Co-Director of the United African Alliance Community Center (UAACC) in Tanzania.  Mama C is currently on tour in the U.S....

Anthony Karakh Browder guest-hosts for Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa in Episode 98, featuring his interview of Paul Obinna, UK educator, artist and creator of The African Timeline, which has been used internationally to teach African history.  Tony Browder is the founder and director of IKG Cultural Resources and has devoted 35 years researching ancient Egyptian history, science, phil...

Human Rights and Justice Guest Host Anthony Karakh Browder, sitting in for host Nkechi Taifa,  interviews Dr. Charles Finch, Physician and Historian, discussing Nile Valley Civilization: A 10,000 Year History!

In Episode 96 of Human Rights and Justice, host Nkechi Taifa interviews author and cultural historian, Tony Browder, as he honors the life and legacy of the great Asa Hilliard and discusses the ASA Restoration Project’s “From the Nile to the Niger to Your Neighborhood.” Browder is the founder and director of IKG Cultural Resources and has devoted over 35 years researching ancient Egyptian history,...

Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa interviews Dr. Julius Garvey, son of the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey and Amy Jacques Garvey on his upcoming new book:  "Justice for Marcus Garvey:  Look For Me in the Whirlwind.” - Episode 95

Episode 94 of Human Rights and Justice features host Nkechi Taifa and former DC Police Officer Ron Hampton discussing the importance of Black August, the murder in cold blood of Sonya Massey, and the necessity of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Broadcast: Originally broadcast August 7, 2024

In Episode 93 of Human Rights and Justice, host Nkechi Taifa discusses the recently released provocative book, “Not in My Name: Reparations Now” with author Hehimetu RaEnkamit, PhD. The show also features the Orisa Feast Community Day with Bokor Iya Mari.

Professor Arun Kundnani and Sister Shafeah join Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa in Episode 91, sharing riveting historical and contemporary insights from the life of Imam Jamil Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown. Professor Kundnani is a writer on issues involving race, Islamopobia, surveillance, political violence and radicalism.  He just completed a biography of H. Rap Brown which...

Clarence Edwards grew up as a Black youth in segregated Washington, DC with no interest in policing, yet ended up becoming a nearly 40-year veteran in law enforcement. He joins Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa in Episode 90 addressing a myriad of issues ranging from the need that policing be reinvented and repurposed from enforcement by law of the Fugitive Slave Act and Jim Crow laws of...

Human Rights and Justice talk show features historian extraordinaire Dr. Daud Malik Watts, discussing with host Nkechi Taifa, tidbits from his upcoming latest book, “The Big Black Jailbreak:  African American History 1775-1865," describing astonishing numbers of Black Self-Emancipation, including jailbreaks in the American Revolution Period; Jailbreaks in Haitian Revolution Times; Jailbreaks...

Kristi Orisabiyi Williams joins Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa in poignantly discussing the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, and the recent trip to Tulsa, OK on the heels of the OK Supreme Court decision denying relief to the two living survivors.  Kristi is a prominent Tulsa community activist, award-winning National Geographic advisor and former chair of the Greater Tulsa African American A...

Rehabilitation and Healing: The Role of Social Workers in the Reparations Movement!   Panelists:  Elder Baba Leonard Dunston: President Emeritus NABSW; Melissa Smith Haley - President NABSW; BabaJay Onaje Muid - Co-chair NABSW National Relations Committee Pursuant to international norms, rehabilitation is a major aspect of reparations, Beyond unraveling consequences from the enslavement era and it...

Human Rights and Justice Episode 86 features host Nkechi Taifa interviewing the phenomenal Kim Poole, a Soul-Fusion Performing Artist hailing from her hometown of Baltimore, and Founding Fellow of the Teaching Artist Institute (TAI), operating in the USA, Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, Jamaica, Uganda, Tanzania and The Gambia. Under the TAI umbrella, Kim serves as Chief Visionary of the ARTIZEN conferen...

Esteemed scholars Dr. Wade Nobles, Dr. Joyce King and Dr. Afia Zakiya join Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa on Juneteenth, sharing issues relating to the concept of Ubuntu and its relationships to the climate crisis, protection of Freedmen’s Settlements, and Black psychology.

Human Rights and Justice with host Nkechi Taifa features a discussion with political commentator, Angela Rye, with clips from Atty. Ben Crump, Joy Reid, and Marilyn Mosby. Co-host, Cynthia Roseberry.

Human Rights and Justice with host, Attorney Nkechi Taifa, features a discussion with Addie Richburg, Executive Director of the 400 Years of African American History Commission, a Federally appointed 15-member Commission established to coordinate the 400th anniversary of the first documented arrival of enslaved Africans in the English colonies.  The Commission is legislated to plan, develop and ca...

Description:  Episode 80 of Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa interviews Congo issues veteran Maurice Carney, co-founder and Executive Director of Friends of the Congo, discussing the historical and current situation in the Congo and the destructive interventionist role the U.S. and others have played. 

Guests:  Gwen Carr (mother of Eric Garner, killed by police during use of a prohibited chokehold) Patricia Elam-Walker (mother of Denzel Elam Ruff, brutalized by police during a vaping arrest on the Ocean City boardwalk) Sonia Pruitt (former police captain, Montgomery County, MD and former Chair, National Black Police Association) Episode 78 of Human Rights and Justice features Gwen Carr, one of t...

Episode 79 of Human Rights and Justice with host, Nkechi Taifa, features an interview with Haitian-born advocate and organizer Eugenia Charles, host of Konbit Lakay, a socio-political Haitian WPFW 89.3 FM radio show. She is also the Executive Director of Fondasyon Mapou, a faith-based organization that promotes Haitian issues and human rights. The episode begins with a poem written by Taifa on Hai...

Description - Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa engages in an exciting chat with Nkenge Toure, legendary Black feminist icon and former long-time host of WPFW’s show “In Our Voices,” discussing her life and those of historic Black women as we kick off Women’s History Month.  Broadcast March 6, 2024

Human Rights and Justice features a conversation with Dr. Ron Daniels, President of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, discussing with Talk Show Host Nkechi Taifa, Black Facts, Paul Robeson, and features of the April 19-25, 2023 State of the Black World Conference.