Racial Discrimination
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Dr. Rami Nashashibi
Rami Nashashibi was born in Amman, Jordan, lived in Spain, Saudi Arabia, and Italy during his teenage years, and moved to Chicago at age 19. There he earned a B.A. from DePaul University in 1995 and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 2010. Nashashibi is a MacArthur Fellow and the founder…
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Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is one of the world’s most revered statesmen, who led the struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multiracial democracy. Jailed for 27 years, he emerged to become the country’s first black President and to play a leading role in the drive for peace in other spheres of conflict.…
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Van Jones
Van Jones is the founding director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Founded in 1996 and named for an unsung civil rights heroine, the Center challenges human rights abuses in the U.S. criminal justice system. A project of the Ella Baker Center, Bay Area Police Watch is committed to stopping police misconduct and…
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Bill Russell
Those who know of Bill Russell know he was a force to be reckoned with on the court. Through his 13 years in the league, he led the Celtics to 11 championships and was recognized with five Most Valuable Player awards. As extraordinarily accomplished as he is on the court, it is his courage and…
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Lena Vann
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Young Defender Lena Vann, a passionate activist from North Carolina A&T University, is dedicated to addressing the intersection of race and menstrual justice. Hailing from an immigrant background, she firmly believes in uplifting others and supporting her community with an open hand. As Miss Freshman at her school, Lena took…
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Christian Yohannes
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Young Defender Christian Yohannes is a 20-year-old George Washington University junior, from Leesburg, Virginia and a product of Loudoun County Public Schools. He is the son of Ethiopian immigrants, a community activist, a former White House Intern in the Biden-Harris Administration, and the youngest Second Vice-President in Loudoun County’s NAACP…
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Addressing the social and racial barriers to health care equity
Tags Share Fortune covers our president Kerry Kennedy’s recent participation at the 2023 Most Powerful Women Summit. Joined by industry experts from Johnson & Johnson and the Susan G. Komen foundation, Kerry and her co-panelists discussed the social and racial barriers to health care equity – and how to address them.
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Kerry Kennedy Named 2023 Freedom Award Recipient
Tags Share Memphis Magazine features our president Kerry Kennedy as one of the 2023 Freedom Award recipients from the National Civil Rights Museum.
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US violates human rights of Black immigrants: shadow report to UN Human Rights Committee for the fifth periodic review of the US under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Receiving Body United Nations Human Rights Committee Report Type Shadow report for the fifth periodic review of the United States under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Tags Partners
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Chicago Tribune: The Families of Those Killed by Police Seek a Path to Justice Through International Law
Tags Share “She called and let me know that she wasn’t coming home that night. I didn’t know that she meant that she was going to be gone forever,” Martinez Sutton tearfully testified in 2015 about the killing of his sister Rekia Boyd by an off-duty police officer. Eight years later, he and his family…
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Mike Brown v. United States: Seeking justice for lethal police violence
This case seeks justice for the extrajudicial killing of Mike Brown and violations of the human rights of Mike and his mother Lezley McSpadden under the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man.
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The Cases of Michael Brown and Rekia Boyd
Tags Share In 2012, Rekia Boyd, a 22-year-old Black woman, was killed by an off-duty police officer in Chicago, IL. In 2014, Black teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, MO. To this day, their killers have never been held accountable. Now, on the 9-year anniversary of Micheal Brown’s…
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