Nkechi Taifa is a person for whom every day is filled with reflection on Black folk and their collective power. So how is she rolling with today’s current “racial reckoning?” By preparing to conquer the online and book-and-mortar bookshelves in the names of our youth. In her top-selling memoir, Black…

by Nkechi Taifa, Esq. WASHINGTON — 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 case in point. Then you add the recent Harvard study from Harvard Medical…

On This Stormy MLK Day, There’s No Better Time to Call for Reparatory Justice! By Nkechi Taifa, Esq. The terror Blacks feel is in our bones. For me, it began when white storm clouds of terror hung over the home of Mose Wright late one August night in 1955, when…

By Nkechi Taifa, Esq. WASHINGTON — I am at Ground Zero. My law degree cannot protect me. My fancy address cannot protect me. My radio appearances and Zoom book tour cannot protect me. …

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As African Americans across the nation continue to celebrate Black History Month, social justice expert, attorney, and activist, Nkechi Taifa, warns that while remembering the achievements and relevance of Black people in history is always cause for celebration, we must also focus on keeping Black history from being erased.

by Nkechi Taifa What in the heck is going on with my brand-new friends in the Central York, PA. school board, the ones who gave me such a great assist promoting my soon-to-be re-issued books by publicly banning them, causing the local NAACP publicly complain? First, the board bans my…

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 the eyes of those who Martin Luther King might have called in an earlier time “white moderates.” Here’s some proof: last month, two…

by Nkechi Taifa, Esq. Dear Central York, Pennsylvania School Board: I read with great interest the article in The York Daily Record about the struggle the school board is having with adopting an anti-racism curriculum. As a current attorney and former teacher in the Black independent school movement, I know…