Human Rights & Justice

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.

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!

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 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 Descent, President of Global Black, and Manager of Policy and Research for the Movement for Black Lives

Dr. Vickie Casanova-Willis - joining from Geneva. Vickie was sent by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights as a delegate to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.

Angela Proctor - Archivist and Digital Librarian for Southern Univeristy, lead researcher interviewing descendants of the GU272

Rochelle Sanders-Prater and Dawn Mellion-Patin - Descendants of the nearly 300 enslaved Africans sold into the sugarcane plantation by the Jesuits to save Georgetown University from bankruptcy. 

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 - interfaith minister, peace activist, corporate attorney
Mr. Robert Stubblefield - activist, organizer, poet

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!

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.

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 brutality of racism and caste that have damaged and continue to harm generations of humanity? The story of King Leopold and the Congo is an especially troubling case. Mame’s Spirit represents one fictional answer with plot twists and rich characters that help introduce this central topic as it provides an Afro-futurist possibility of what the outcome could be if one became obsessed with one of history’s most covered up atrocities!

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 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, as well as present-day challenges facing Black people, other people of color, and religious minorities in Europe. Dr. Lusane is the acclaimed author of "Hitler's Black Victims: the Historical Experiences of European Blacks, Africans and African Americans during the Nazi Era;" "Race in the Global Era: African Americans at the Millennium;" "The Black History of the White House;" and an upcoming book on Harriet Tubman!