NKECHI TAIFA talks about helping the Black Panthers, graduating from law school, and being arrested
NKECHI TAIFA talks about helping the Black Panthers, graduating from law school, and being arrested
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**NOTE: NONE of the clips in the web series are in the full length film. These are all out takes**
ABOUT NKECHI TAIFA
Nkechi Taifa is Founder, Principal and CEO of The Taifa Group LLC, a social enterprise firm whose mission is to advance justice. The Taifa Group’s portfolio of client services include coalition-building, convenings, government relations, meeting and retreat facilitation, strategic planning, and trainings. She also convenes the Justice Roundtable, a broad network of advocacy groups advancing progressive justice system reform, and serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Justice at Columbia University. Nkechi was recently appointed to the governing board of the Corrections Information Council, an independent monitoring body that provides oversight over the conditions of District residents imprisoned throughout the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the D.C. Department of Corrections.
Nkechi served as the Advocacy Director for Criminal Justice for the Open Society Foundations and Open Society Policy Center from 2002-2018, focusing on issues of sentencing reform, law enforcement reform, reentry, prison reform, executive clemency, and racial justice. She also founded the Justice Roundtable coalition while at the Open Society. As the Roundtable convener, Taifa was in the leadership of the coalition responsible for passage of both the Second Chance Act reentry legislation (2008) and the Fair Sentencing Act crack disparity legislation (2010). She helped to fuel the mobilization of the Obama administration’s clemency initiative, which resulted in the early release from unjust imprisonment of over 1,700 prisoners.
ABOUT THE AMERICAN LOWS WEB SERIES
The American LOWS (Legacy Of White Supremacy) Web Series is a companion to the feature length documentary film The American LOWS directed by Darnley R. Hodge, Jr. (aka Brother Saankara) for Blackamoor Films LLC.
The American LOWS is an interview-based documentary that examines the global system of white supremacy and the evolution of that system in America. Interviewees include some of the nations top scholars, politicians, and authorities. The web series mostly features interview out takes that were not included in the full length film.
Interviewees include: Michael Eric Dyson, Michael Steele, Anthony Browder, Jacqueline Battalora, Joe Madison, Runoko Rashidi, Ashra Kwesi, Nkechi Taifa, Gerald Horne, Donald Temple, Etan Thomas, Jared Bernstein, Mark Krikorian, Joseph Torres, Hilary Shelton, Paul Butler, Roland Martin, and the late Dr. Frances Cress Welsing in her final on camera interview.
For more information email blackamoorfilms@icloud.com
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