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 on the status of Black people as Prisoners of War under the Geneva Convention, with a remedy for repair being reparatory justice. A graduate of Yale University, Siphiwe Baleka’s rich history in preserving his ancestral culture and language in Guinea Bissau stands on the shoulders of his career as a World Class swimmer as well as Fitness Guru to the Trucking Industry.

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.

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 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 Independence in which QMM was the first signee. 

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 Psychologists, Dr. Grills discusses the work of the Task Force and its Interim Report released last year, amongst other issues. Visit www.supportreparations.org to register support for the mission of the Task Force, its Interim Report and other related issues.

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 former Executive Director of the National Black Police Association, and Convener of the Institute of the Black World’s 21st Century  Police Justice and Accountability Task Force

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 in Justice states "we hope this commentary on current world conflicts can suggest somewhat of a reorientation along broad, nonsectarian, and-white supremacist lines." 

Guests: Meg Starr, a founder of Resistance in Brooklyn and Puerto Rican solidarity activist who links anti-imperialist politics with the struggle against the climate crisis catastrophe. Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, a member of Resistance in Brooklyn and Professor at the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies of SUNY New Paltz, and Senior editor for the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism.

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" was noted as "the first full-scale exposition of Black Power thought in a British context." The Black Classic Press edition of "Destroy this Temple" was championed to publication by the late author's son, Obi Egbuna Jr. who provided a new introduction highlighting his father's life and his literary legacy.   

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.  

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.