While African Americans have achieved civil rights, it has not ended their collective oppression in America. This book is a pathbreaker for the next stage in the struggle, and key to understanding the special rights African Americans enjoy under international law.

Proceedings of the IHRAAM Chicago Conference 2012 On April 20-21, 2012, key figures in the African American popular leadership and intelligentsia broke new ground in Chicago at the IHRAAM-sponsored conference, adding new planks to the understanding of where the African American struggle had been, where it was now, and the direction it had to go to move forward.