The Republic of New Afrika (RNA) was founded in 1968 as an American social movement based in Black Nationalism; it had three goals: * Creation of an independent African-American-majority country situated in the southeastern United States, in the heart of black-majority population. A similar claim is made for all the black-majority counties and cities throughout the United States. * Payment of several billion dollars in reparations to African-American descendants of slaves by the US government for the damages inflicted on Africans and their descendants by chattel enslavement, Jim Crow segregation, and modern-day forms of racism. * A referendum of all African Americans to determine their desires for citizenship; movement leaders say they were not offered a choice in this matter after