Nkechi Taifa

Gebundenes Buch

Black Power, Black Lawyer

My Audacious Quest for Justice

Beschreibung

The author's memoir stitches suspense, calamity, humor, and wit into a tapestry of history, politics, law, culture, and romance. Both serious and scandalous, her audacious quest for justice is a gripping commentary on life; the perennial nature of human resistance against oppression; and her earnest embrace of what is fair and correct.

Autor

Nkechi Taifa is President of The Taifa Group LLC, a social enterprise firm whose mission is to advance justice. She convenes the Justice Roundtable, an advocacy coalition advancing progressive justice system transformation. Over the course of her career Taifa has served as Advocacy Director for Criminal Justice at the Open Society Foundations; legislative and policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union and Women's Legal Defense Fund; founding director of Howard University School of Law's Equal Justice Program; staff attorney for National Prison Project; Network Organizer for Washington Office on Africa; as a private practitioner representing adult and youth clients; and as a first grade teacher at NationHouse Watoto School. Taifa is past president of the D.C. chapter of the National Conference of Black Lawyers. She is a founding member of N'COBRA, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. She serves as a Commissioner on the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC), and on the governing board of the Corrections Information Council. Nkechi has testified before Congress, United States Sentencing Commission, Council of the District of Columbia, American Bar Association Justice Kennedy Commission, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and U.S. Helsinki Commission. She was special prosecutor delivering the Opening Statements in the People's Tribunal on Mumia Abu-Jamal and the People's Tribunal on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. She served as an appointed Commissioner and Chair of the DC Commission on Human Rights from 2007-2014.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: House of Songhay II
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9781734769319
• ISBN-10: 1734769319
• Artikelnr.: 60367230