Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD

Although Sister Charshee was not a household name in the African Community, in this country, she was one of our leading behind the scenes scholars, leaders, organizers, and activists, who worked tirelessly for the liberation of African and Native American people. Sister Charshee had indigenous, Native American, lineage in her family.

The idea of ALD has its origins in the long history of African people to break free of the yoke of European domination and white supremacy. This is a time in which we emphasize our oneness as a people with a common past, common set of problems, and a common future.

“In contemporary Black America, the only ceremony that approximates the African youth’s rites of passage may be the coronation which introduces young men and women to Black middle class. However, this is primarily an elitist affair that focuses on social status rather than social

Although the language of the Durban Declaration did not specifically call for reparations for African people, it is now our duty to intensify our organizing in demanding the United States Government and U. S. Corporations pay reparations. We must continue to educate the African Community of America on the continued need to organize and revitalize the Reparations Movement.

As Malcolm X used to say, it was our Blackness “which caused so much hell not our identity as Elks, Masons, Baptists or Methodists.” If we are ever to become a liberated people this idea must be deeply rooted in the day to day organizing and mobilizing of our people as we seek economic and educational liberation. Far too many Africans in America have abandoned this idea in their organizing

the more we began to emulate our former slave masters, the worse the internal social conditions of the African American became. Today these conditions are at an all-time low. We have thousands of African American children today who have had virtually no positive family input into their development.

The worldwide African Reparations Movement has become unified around the fact that the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery, and Colonialism were Crimes Against Humanity.

International law supports the position that the enslavement of Africans was a crime against humanity. The Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal defined crimes against humanity in this manner: “Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population… whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetuated.”