Human Rights & Justice

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,

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.

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

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 C

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 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

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 C

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 Declarat