Human Rights
United Nations Antiracism Coalition
Salimah K Hankins, Esq. CPC is an advisor and former director of the UN Antiracism Coalition which is an international civil society coalition for UN accountability for systemic racism and police violence against Africans and people of African Descent. Before that, Salimah served as the Executive Director of the US Human Rights Network (USHRN). She organized the civil society side of the U.S government treaty reviews in Geneva, Switzerland and has produced six annual human rights reports for USHRN. Salimah began her legal career as an associate at the ACLU of Maryland and she served as a civil rights attorney for various organizations in the United States.
August 2020
In 2020, after the killing of George Floyd, Salimah created a virtual healing and story-telling event speaking with the families of Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, Amaud Arbery, and others and honored Black trans and cis womxn as well as GNC killed by police, for the US Human Rights Network when she was Executive Director.
watch below
Story-telling by family members:
Opening by Salimah | 4:14
Blessing by Damon Azali-Rojas | 13:25
Jordan Davis’ father story-telling | 19:23
Michael Brown’s father story-telling | 39:00
Emmitt Till’s cousin story-telling | 43:35
Performance by Sequoiia | 1:00:07
Sandra Bland’s sister story-telling | 1:03:20
Amaud Arbery’s mother story-telling | 1:19:47
Oscar Grant’s uncle story-telling | 1:29:29
Rekia Boyd’s brother story-telling | 1:59:52
Sean Bell’s parents story-telling | 2:11:20
Eric Garner’s mother story-telling | 2:23:19
Q & A with families | 2:39:30
Honoring Black trans and cis womxn and Blk GNC with a song by Jennifer Johns | 3:01:59
Closing by Ron Davis & Salimah Hankins | 3:08:35
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