Human Rights & Justice

Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa dives in with Siphiwe Balenta, President of the Balenta Society in America, on intersecting issues of international law and diplomacy, reparations, DNA and justice.  Baleka, amongst other international instruments, is using the mandate of the Permanent Forum on People of Africa Descent to request an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice...

Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa continues her interview of Episode 34 with the multi-talented Siphiwe Baleka on his many reparations efforts in the international arena, including his case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the issue of ethnocide as distinct from genocide, the African Diaspora as Region Six of the African Union, and more, including his personal triumph...

Human Rights and Justice does a deep dive into the current activity around reparations in the state of California, as well as the City of San Francisco. Discussing these issues with host Nkechi Taifa, is Dr. Cheryl Tawede Grills, a clinical psychologist who was appointed by the Governor of California to the California Reparations Task Force. A past president of the National Association of Black Ps...

Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa ruminates on legendary civil and human rights icon Queen Mother Audley Moore, and interviews her biographist, Professor Ashley Farmer, on her upcoming biography on this great unsung Black heroine who influenced a generation on reparations.  This episode is in honor of the March 31, 1968 anniversary of the signing of the New Afrikan Declaration of Independ...

In 2018 Human Rights and Justice Talk Show host Nkechi Taifa delivered the Sparer Keynote Address at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.  The topic was reparations and the keynote was part of a comprehensive convening at the law school on the issue. Human Rights and Justice replays this keynote as its Episode #32, on April 5, 2023.

Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa interviews representatives of the Brooklyn in Justice Collective who discuss the organization's statement on the current crisis in Ukraine. The statement was issued and targeted largely to the Western left, "which has shown itself to be weak and underdeveloped compared to the rest of the world, and is at a crisis and crossroads." Brooklyn i...

Season 2, Episode 2 of Human Rights and Justice centers on the issue of police brutality, with a focus on the police killing of Tyre Nichols. Host Nkechi Taifa interviews Guest Ron Hampton, retired DC police officer and expert on policing in the U.S. and globally, discussing his recent statement on this latest beating and murder of an unarmed and defenseless Black man.  Guest: Mr. Hampton is forme...

Human Rights and Justice talk show host Nkechi Taifa interviews Brother Tag and Sister Aleta from the Spirit of Mandela's "About the People," a grassroots project, about its premiere audio-visual broadcast installment #1: Camp Muntaqim, which will feature Revolutionary Elder Jalil Muntaqim and Incarcerated Organizer Kwame Shakur, as well as the projects other activities.  

Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa chats with Obi Egbuna, Jr. about the republishing of the  iconic book of his father, "Destroy this Temple,”  first published in 1971. The senior Egbuna was a Nigerian-born novelist, playwright and political activist known for being a member of the British Black Panther movement (1968-72) during the years he lived in England. "Destroy this Temple...

Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa discusses her new book on reparations, "Reparations on Fire: How and Why its Spreading Across America," with cultural anthropologist Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor, director of the National Black Cultural Information Trust, 12-28-22.

Talk Show Host Nkechi Taifa shares her Reparations Roundup News and Views recording of her Feb. 2022 testimony before the California Reparations Task Force, on Episode 18 of Human Rights and Justice. The title of her testimony is History and Reflections of the Reparations Movement in the U.S. 

 Human Rights and Justice Host Nkechi Taifa interviews members of the International Civil Society Delegation as they bring critical diasporic African issues to the front at historic international convening in Switzerland. Esteemed guests include: Dr. Amara Enyia, JD PhD - joining from Geneva. Dr. Amara is chair of the Intl Civil Society Working Group for the Permanent Forum on People of African De...

Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa interviews Edward Sargent, independent journalist, editor of Claud Anderson's pivotal works, and author of a soon-to-be released series focused on the relationship between law enforcement and Black people - the War in America Volumes I and II. 

Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa conducts a riveting interview with the only surviving son of the Honorable Marcus Garvey - Dr. Julius Garvey, and Attorney Justin Hansford, US Representaife to the UN Forum on People of African Descent. This discussion is chock full of historical and contemporary tidbits. Don’t miss it!

Episode 9 of Human Rights and Justice features interviews with two Powerhouse Commentators - Howard University’s Professor Greg Carr and Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown. They discuss with host Nkechi Taifa the importance of voting in the upcoming mid-term elections and what’s at stake, concluding with the mantras, “WE WILL NOT BLACK DOWN!” and VOTE TO REDUCE THE HARM!

Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa features a  book talk with author, activist, scholar Bernard Demczuk, PhD., discussing his novel  “Mame’s Spirit: Reparations and Romance, An Afro-Futurist Crime-Mystery Love-Story Re-Mixed with Reparations, Righteousness and West African Spirituality." Mame’s Spirit helps to raise this vital question: How should we atone, reconcile or rectify the br...

Host Nkechi Taifa interviews Dr. Akmal Muwwakkil, an herbalist and healer with a Ph. D. in Nutrition. He is a licensed acupuncturist, massage therapist, auricular detoxification expert, Tui Na specialist and a QiGong master. He is an author, master teacher, and coach. The wide-ranging discussion included mental health, enslavement, violence, negative attitudes, health maladies, diabetes, food etc.

In Episode 12, Human Rights and Justice host interviews Baba Lumumba, historian and long-time Pan-Afrikan/Black Nationalist community leader, discussing a range of themes from African people and European Holidays to Assimilation vs Freedom!

There are Bethesda, MD residents who live atop of and park their cars on a Black American cemetery that has existed for more than a century. Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa interviews members of the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition about their fight against government and big business on behalf of our departed ancestors!   Featured guests:  Rev. Dr. Julianne Robertson, Esq - interfai...

Human Rights and Justice host Nkechi Taifa interviews Dr. Clarence Lusane, Interim Chair of the Political Science Department and Director of International Affairs at Howard University, who was recently confirmed as U.S. Independent Expert to the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance. Dr. Lusane discusses people of African descent who suffered from and resisted Nazism and the Holocaust...

On October 22-25, 2021 the Spirit of Mandela Coalition hosted an International Tribunal charging the U.S. with human rights abuses against Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples before a panel of nine jurists. This 2021 Tribunal stood on the shoulders of the 1951 Petition We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People,” submitted to the United Nations, and led by William Patters...

In Episode 6 of Human Rights and Justice, host Nkechi Taifa interviews Mr. Darron Patterson, direct descendant of the last known Africans to be illegally transported to the U.S. in the belly of the slave ship Clotilda, landing in Mobile, Alabama in 1859, whose ancestors formed the community of AfricaTown, and Dr. Afia Zakiya - newly installed first Executive Director of the AfricaTown Heritage Pre...

Nkechi Taifa’s Human Rights and Justice Episode 5 features Julia Wright joining in from Paris, France. She is an esteemed poet and essayist, and daughter of legendary author & expatriate Richard Wright ( Native Son, Black Boy ). Julia reflects on her life, along with her Great-Uncle’s 1916 lynching, the Elaine Arkansas 1919 Massacre, upcoming Emmett Till documentary, and Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Episode 4 features Human Rights & Justice host Nkechi Taifa broadcasting live from the Congressional Black Caucus’ Sept 28-Oct 2, 2022 Conference at the DC Convention Center.    Stopping by to give shout-outs and commentary include CBCF President and CEO Nicole Austin-Hillery; the Sentencing Project's Nicole Porter; Patrice Sulton from the DC Justice Lab; Jamila Hodge with Equal Justice U...

In Episode 3, Host Nkechi Taifa discusses  her article, “Why the Woman King Made Me Feel Like a Queen.” She also reflects on an uncomfortable issue, that prisoners of war taken aboard The Clotilda, the last known slave ship to illegally enter US shores in 1860, were captured by the Agogie women warriors on behalf of the Kingdom of Dahomey and then sold to Europeans. She plays a recorded interview...