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News that highlights the lives, visions, achievements, policies, and strategies of exceptional contemporary African Diaspora leaders across the globe in order to motivate, challenge, and encourage current and future generations of people of African descent to take initiative and offers guidance to those interested in Africa’s development.

P.S. 48 Receives $200,000 From Councilmember De La Rosa In City Budget

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Office of Councilmember Carmen De La Rosa September 25, 2023 (New York, NY) – Councilmember Carmen De La Rosa met with...

Racial Policing: DOJ Announces Review Of Memphis Police Department

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube The Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) announced today it will be undertaking two important...

Dishonest Republicans Who Exonerated Traitorous Trump After Jan. 6 Coup Attempt Now Press For...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Black Star News Editorial Photos: YouTube Screenshots The dishonest Republican Party’s current “impeachment inquiry” into President Joe Biden is nothing more than a...

Lehman College, Community Chorus To Present Annual Free Winter Concert On December 10

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Wikimedia CommonsYouTube ScreenshotLehman College The Bronx, NY—The Lehman College and Community Chorus presents its annual, free Winter Concert on Sunday, December...

Atlanta’s First, Black “First Lady” Bunnie Jackson-Ransom Passes Away At 82

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube ATLANTA – (February 3, 2023). – Atlanta Icon Burnella Hayes Jackson-Ransom, affectionately known as Bunnie, passed away surrounded by her...

This Black-Owned Spa Created With Black Women In Mind

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Black Star News has been producing stellar investigative journalism since 1997, including focusing on police brutality and other abuses targeting marginalized...

Israel And Hamas At War: Palestinian People Deserve Better

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots Israel and Hamas are at war, with many deaths on both sides being reported. Meantime, another crisis is brewing,...

Human Rights Watch: Hamas Must Free Hostages. Israel Must Allow Aid Into Gaza

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots (Jerusalem) – Israeli authorities and Hamas have reportedly agreed to a multiple-day ceasefire and the release of dozens of...

BPRW’s “Thrivin’ In Color” Podcast Celebrates Sistas Who Succeed

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: Black PR Wire (Black PR Wire) Miami, FL – In recognition of Women’s History Month, Black PR Wire’s captivating podcast, Thrivin’...

Soccer: Hartford Athletic Signs Jamaican Defender For 2024 USL Championship Season

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: XYouTube ScreenshotWikimedia Commons News Americas, HARTFORD, CT, Mon. Jan. 8, 2023: Hartford Athletic has officially announced the signing of Jamaican Reggae...

Hell In IsraelPalestine: How Do We Transcend Genocidal War To Embrace Humanity?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots “In the midst of our grief and pain, let’s remind each other who we are.”  These are the words of Stefanie...

What It Will Become and Why?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Harriet Fraad and Richard Wolff, Economy for All — The real left is not the caricature crafted by the U.S. right....

MAGA Madness: The Architect Of Sedition Wins House Speakership

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots October 25, 2023 – The Lincoln Project releases the following statement in response to Mike Johnson becoming Speaker of the...

Medgar Evers College: Black History Month Opening Program Wednesday

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: Event Flyer The Medgar Evers College Black History Month Opening Program, in partnership with the Center for Black Literature, will present...

Israel-Gaza War: Deaths Of Journalists Continues To Rise

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots The Israel-Gaza war has taken a severe toll on journalists since Hamas launched its unprecedented attack against Israel on October...

Jewish group moves to support reparations for Black Americans

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Isheka N. Harrison, TMN — A Jewish group has taken a step toward supporting reparations for Black Americans. Reconstructing Judaism recently voted to approve a resolution to...

Sharpton Makes Historic Trip To UK To Champion Voting Rights, Police Accountability

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube New York, NY (Sunday, February 5, 2023) – Civil Rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton will make a two-day visit to...

Communiqué – 46th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Forty-Sixth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held from 25 –...

Ugandan Dictator Museveni Turns Once Shining Opposition Leader Into His Political Condom

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Zacharia Kanyonyozi Photos: YouTube Screenshots Over the weekend, Norbert Mao, (below ) the Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister and President General of...

The great slave strike that helped end slavery

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). We rightly celebrate Abraham Lincoln for helping end slavery. But we shouldn’t forget the unstoppable force that also brought down the...

The everyday violence of life in occupied Palestine

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Vijay Prashad, Globetrotter — Driving along the Jordan River Valley in the Occupied Palestine Territory (OPT) of the West Bank is...

Dr. Ron Daniels delivers summary remarks at Rally/Forum

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). March 21, 2024, Washington, DC — Dr. Ron Daniels delivers closing remarks at Forum/Rally “Resolving the Critical Crisis in Haiti –...

Public Enemy’s Chuck D Will Take Part In NJPAC Discussion On 5 Decades of...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Dr. Mc. Debbie DFacebook (Newark, N.J. –) As part of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC’s)  Social Justice Learning Series,...

What’s the Path Forward for Haiti?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). As the international community contemplates another armed intervention, a reckoning with history is long overdue. By Marlene L. Daut, The New Yorker...