AfricanAmericanProject

An international NGO in consultative status with the United Nations

The African American Situation


	Left to right: Atty. Musa Dan Fodio, Dr. Tyson King-Meadows, Diana Collier Kly, Cynthia McKinney, Vernellia Randall, Judge Leonard Murray, Dr. Farid I. Muhammad.

Left to right: Atty. Musa Dan Fodio, Dr. Tyson King-Meadows, Diana Collier Kly, Cynthia
McKinney, Vernellia Randall, Judge Leonard Murray, Dr. Farid I. Muhammad.

AFRICAN AMERICAN STRUGGLE
HEADING IN NEW DIRECTION?
IHRAAM CHICAGO CONFERENCE,
East-West University, April 2012

On April 20-21, 2012, key representatives of the African American popular leadership
and intelligentsia broke new ground in Chicago at the IHRAAM-sponsored conference
titled FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO HUMAN RIGHTS AND SELF-DETERMINATION?
Speakers and attendees flew in from all corners–California, Georgia, Illinois,
Mississippi, New York, South Carolina, Washington, DC, Virginia and Canada. The
atmosphere in the conference hall at East-West University was electrifying, as
speaker after speaker added new planks to attendees’ understanding of where the
African American struggle had been, where it was now, and the direction it had to go
to move forward. There was no disagreement from either speakers or floor on the
general direction proposed by the title of the conference: that the African American
struggle must now move on from civil rights to human rights and self-determination.
more


		JUST RELEASED! PROCEEDINGS OF THE IHRAAM CHICAGO CONFERENCE 2012 ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND SELF-DETERMINATION

			ISBN: 978-0-9853353-4-2 202 pages 2012

INTERVENTIONS TO
UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Agenda Item 9

“Jim Crow Revamped: The Re-
emergence of African American
Voter Registration Suppression
Laws”

The African American National Minority
White Americans With Trends Downward
Despite High Visibility of Black Individuals

19th session
Discriminatory Incarceration Severely
Impacts the African American National
Minority

WEBINAR
Vernellia Randall
Professor of Law, Dayton University
coming soon!

IHRAAM 2000 SURVEY OF
AFRICAN AMERICAN VIEWS ON
SELF-DETERMINATION TO BE
EXPANDED IN 2012

The findings of a survey of African American views in
relation to African American self-determination,
undertaken by Dr. Farid I. Muhammad under the
auspices of IHRAAM in the year 2000, was
presented at the recent IHRAAM Conference, "From
Civil Rights to Human Rights and the Right to
Self-determination?" International lawyer
professors Francis A. Boyle and Daniel Turp
advised the conference that such a survey was an
important factor in the determination of African
American desires in that regard. A second survey
but much expanded survey will be undertaken by Dr.
Muhammad in 2012, along with other participating
academics. If you would like to assist, please
contact Dr. Farid Muhammad.

IHRAAM TO SUBMIT REPORT TO
THE 2014 UN UNIVERSAL
PERIODIC REVIEW OF
THE UNITED STATES
RE AFRICAN AMERICANS

All 192 UN Member States of the United
Nations are required to report every four
years on human rights issues through a
mandatory review process established by UN
General Assembly Resolution 60/251 in
2006. The process provides an opportunity
for NGOs and others to submit alternative
reports to that produced by government,
affording the opportunity for the review
process to deepen the understanding and
broaden the exposure of human rights
violations within states with a view to their
correction.
In 2014, the United States will be required to
submit its report. IHRAAM intends to
participate in the process as it relates to the
situation of African Americans, and will be
soliciting input from scholars across the
nation. If you would like to participate,
please contact Atty. Aneesa Mitchell.

	MUST SEE DOCUMENTARY: "We Still Ain't Free: The Facade of the American Dream PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 A cross section of people discuss how systemic racism keeps millions of people down while offering others hope and opportunity. Executive Producer Dr. Randy Short and Sr. Director Marzieh Hashemi's film gives voice to those who believe that African Americans are far from achieving the American dream in health, education, welfare and justice.

Dr. Randy Short
is an IHRAAM
Consultant

Slavery and the Second
Amendment by Prof. Julie E.K.
Walker

LINKS OF INTEREST