Human Rights & Justice

After  being convicted of 34 counts, Trump is now calling himself a political prisoner - The Audacity! Today’s Human Rights and Justice episode 85 reminds us who the REAL political prisoners are - past and present.  To unpack this with host Nkechi Taifa are the following guests:  
Jihad Abdulmumit, Dequi Kioni-Sadiki, Zayid Muhammad
(Sekou Odinga listens in from the ancestral realm!)

Broadcast: June 5, 2024

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 83 shines a light on the unjust prosecution of former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosley, who is facing 40 years in prison on trumped up charges, initiated from the Trump Justice Department and has continued unabated during the current administration. The episode, hosted by Nkechi Taifa and co-hosted with Cynthia Roseberry, features an interview with political commentator Angela Rye; an excerpt from the Joy Reid show; and excerpts from an interview between Angela Rye and Attorney Ben Crump, with remarks from Marilyn Mosby.

broadcast May 8, 2024

Episode 81 of 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 carry out programs and activities throughout the United States that recognize and highlight the resilience and cultural contributions of African Americans over 400 years and beyond. The Commission has forged collaborative relationships with over 350 local, regional, and national organizations, municipalities, cultural and other entities and institutions in the U.S., including connections made in Alaska, Hawaii and the Virgin Islands. The show will also commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the eve of his assassination.

Broadcast - April 3, 2024

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.

Human Rights and Justice Episode 68 features host Nkechi Taifa interviewing veteran activist elder Baba Lumumba on the significance of Kwanzaa and more!

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 prison life, the power of healing, the Shakuhachi flute, and more.  Because the sound of his blowing the Shakuhachi did not come during this recording, listen to a clip from one of his pieces at the end of the interview, visit his Instagram page (VeronzaBowers) and be mesmerized by his soothing sounds! 

Broadcast: October 9, 2024, on WPFWFM.89.3 Pacifica Radio.  Interview conducted July 2024

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 lost. The Uhuru Movement told the truth and won. The government's goal to discredit speech by Black and other colonized peoples backfired. Human Rights and Justice episode 102 discusses the over 50-year history of the APSP, Uhuru Movement, and Solidarity Arm, as well as its Reparations Arm, African National Reparations Organization.

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 for mail fraud in 1923, and makes a persuasive case for overturning Garvey’s conviction and, at minimum, exonerating him of the false charges that led to his unjust imprisonment.

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. and is an internationally celebrated artist, musician, filmmaker, priestess, and a warrior woman of peace!  She is in the DC area as part of the Ile Imole annual Water Ritual and is joined in discussion with Ile Imole’s Bokor Iya Mari and Iya Olosunde during this exciting Human Rights and Justice broadcast.