
By Nkechi Taifa, Esq. — The U.S. Department of Justice has fired a dangerous shot across the bow of Asheville, North Carolina, and Buncombe County, threatening legal action if they…
Nkechi Taifa is the Executive Director of the Reparation Education Project, and author of the best-seller, Reparations on Fire: How and Why It’s Spreading Across America
By Nkechi Taifa, Esq. — The U.S. Department of Justice has fired a dangerous shot across the bow of Asheville, North Carolina, and Buncombe County, threatening legal action if they…
By Nkechi Taifa — The Ancestors know how to make things work. In their constant, cosmic blend between the invisible and the tangible, they have caused historic blinders to drop from…
By Nkechi Taifa — Normally my morning walks don’t include going down Memory Lane, particularly one that has been invisible for almost a century. But there I was, in Lafayette…
Dear Rolling Stone Editors: The day I discovered the commentary you ran — which was Tuesday, in the morning — I was poised to participate in a Washington, D.C. press conference with…
To say I was an “interesting” teenager is an understatement. Once upon a revolutionary time, I was a Black Power teen who lived in the once Chocolate City but went to…
If acknowledgement is the first step toward acceptance, reparations for Black people in America has taken a major step forward. The Feb. 17th House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Reparations is one…