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 Attorney
Mawuli Mel Davis has been a human and civil rights activist
and organizer for more than a decade. Mawuli currently serves
as the Co-Chair of the Atlanta Chapter of the National
Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (“N’COBRA”).
Mawuli’s contributions to the community have largely been
a synthesis of his parents’ approach to community service
and activism. Mawuli is the son of former Harlem Globetrotter,
Mel “Trick” Davis, and Mary Etta Davis, a retired Chicago
Public School teacher and administrator. Mawuli was the Navy's
1998 recipient of the NAACP Roy Wilkins Meritorious Service
Award, an award given to one service member from each branch
of the Armed Forces for outstanding contributions to civil
and human rights. In 2001, he was awarded Georgia State University’s
Eleanor Norton Holmes/Thurgood Marshall Award for his outstanding
contribution as a law student. In 2002, he received the Georgia
State University Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Torch of Peace
Award for his work as an advocate for social justice and human
rights.
 Throughout
his years as an organizer and community activist Attorney
has developed educational and athletic programs for youth,
lectured at universities and military bases throughout the
country around the world. Mawuli served as the director of
National African American Club’s “Ida B. Wells” Community
GED Program. Additionally, he developed the curriculum for
the “Sankofa Cultural Enrichment Children's Program”, which
was recognized and funded by the City of Chicago Mayor's Summer
Youth Delinquency Prevention Program and replicated in satellite
locations. Mawuli served as the Executive Producer of 'Genuine
Soul: From Be-Bop to Hip Hop,' a musical cabaret featuring
Gerald Alston of the Manhattans. Mawuli worked with gang members
on Chicago’s Southside to establish a summer basketball league.
He also co-founded the “Ol' School Basketball and Youth Development"
program. In 2000 and 2001 he was a guest speaker at the Naval
Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In August of 2001, he attended
the United Nations World Conference Against Racism in Durban,
South Africa.
LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
- “Black History: Beyond Celebration, A Blue Print To Salvation”
- “Since life is a game. How do we win?”
- “Students, the struggle for human rights, and the Reparations
Movement”
- “Stay Connected: Black Athletes on White Campuses”
- “African Americans in the Military: How to Help Rebuild
Our Communities”
- “The Durban Experience: What really happened at the United
Nations World Conference on Racism”
- “A Workshop for Life: The Malcolm Model- Developing Authentic
Adults”
- “Preaching to the Choir: What Progressives must do to
attract the masses”
- “More important than Money: How we teach the Reparations
Movement”
- “Reparations: Resources for Repair. Connecting Reparations
to Contemporary Injuries”
- “Because my mother said I could: Black Boys loving absentee
Black fathers”
- “Our Children are missing: The Criminal Injustice Systems
impact on people of color”
- “Struggling for Safe Space: Housing Discrimination, Homelessness,
and More”
- “To Honor Him, You Must Know- Remembering Dr. King”
- “Class Suicide: Why Black Professionals must practice
the ‘African Principle’ and How”
- “My sons will never know: Ending the cycle of domestic
violence”
- “They saved my life: Understanding the power of women”
- “Call me coach- Black male mentors on and off the court”
- “Making Black History: How our God is still speaking
To And Through The Black Church”
- “You Are Not Alone: Workshop on developing local organizations”
- “Let the Healing Begin From Within: How And Why Activist
Must Repair Themselves”
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