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The election of George W. Bush as the US president has caused concern among many African American communities. This AR program, recorded in 1997, poses the question, will anything change under the new US administration? It also poses some questions for our own race relations debate. The connection of economic justice and human rights was proposed by Franklin Roosevelt in 1944. FDR said, "We have come to a clear realisation of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. We have accepted a second bill of rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all, regardless of station, race or creed." Four years later the United Nations expanded on Roosevelt's vision and adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Loretta Ross is on the front lines of the struggle for racial equality and social justice. She is Director of the Centre for Human Rights in Atlanta. She was one of the first African American women to direct a rape crisis centre. She was also the Program Director at the National Black Women's Health Project. Loretta Ross spoke at the Urban Justice Centre in New York.
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