African Diaspora Leaders

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.

Will Gaza Be Biden’s Vietnam?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Vantage Point VignettesComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels But for his ill-conceived and ill-fated support for the Vietnam War, Lyndon Baines Johnson...

AIPAC is an Enemy of Humanity — By Julianne Malveaux

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Julianne Malveaux — Let me begin with the obligatory statements. What happened on October 7, 2023, was horrible. Hamas launched an...

The MAGA enemies list is growing, and so are the odds that you’re on...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Svante Myrick, The Hill — As the Republican primaries slog toward the climax of a likely Trump nomination, I can’t help thinking...

San Francisco apologizes to Black residents for decades of racist policies

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Janie Har, AP — Supervisors in San Francisco formally apologized Tuesday to African Americans and their descendants for the city’s role...
Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com), World’s #1 Online Multimedia News Provider Devoted to International Diaspora and their Stakeholders. By Courtesy of Dr. Roland Holou. © All rights reserved.

Dr. Ron Daniels: Resolving the crisis in Haiti – Appeal for donations and support

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The post Dr. Ron Daniels: Resolving the crisis in Haiti – Appeal for donations and support is available on Institute of...

The Montana Accord Movement to the Rescue

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Vantage Point VignettesComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels Haiti, our first Black Republic, is a virtual failed state where vicious gangs...

Trump has already laid out his 5-step Fascist plan

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Robert Reich — On Friday, Trump posted a video featuring an image of President Biden hog-tied —with hands and feet bound...

Comprehensive Reparations for Black America Primer

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). What are Comprehensive Reparations? The National African American Reparations Commission supports Comprehensive Reparations for Black America. Comprehensive reparations are expansive and focus...

109-year-old Tulsa massacre survivors get day in court

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, thought to be the worst single act of white supremacist violence against...

Israeli peace activists are more anguished than ever − in a movement that has...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Secular Jewish groups have historically made up the majority of solidarity and peace groups. But Palestinian citizens and observant Jews are...

Tell the truth about Israel’s crimes against humanity

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Western news bias in favor of Israel is more and more apparent as mediaoutlets go out of their way to obscure...

A story of reparations and healing from New Zealand

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). New Zealand’s reparations for the Māori people are an example the United States can follow in pursuit of racial justice for...

Why the Biden campaign should invest in the Black Press

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Why the Biden campaign should invest in the Black Press NNPA NEWSWIRE — Advertising in the Black Press provides deeper visibility beyond...

14 wrecked slavers’ ships are identified in Bahamas

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Largest cluster of sunken vessels from the 18th and 19th centuries have been identified, bearing ‘silent witness’ to the colonial past. By...

Prisoners, unions sue Alabama, alleging ‘modern-day slavery’

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The lawsuit claims that Alabama’s system of prison labor generates massive profits for private businesses and revenues for the state by...
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Water is Life! The Line 5 oil pipeline threatens so much of it.

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous — For years, the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and other tribes of the Great Lakes region...
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March 21st Forum/Rally: Resolving the Critical Crisis in Haiti

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). You Are Here: Home » Blog » News & Current Affairs » Events » March 21st Forum/Rally: Resolving the Critical Crisis in...

Eric Mathew Gairy was not a champion of Grenada’s independence.

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Lennie Fleary — After I wrote about Eric Matthew Gairy of Grenada, someone told me Gairy had brought independence to Grenada,...

Dr. William Strickland, scholar and political activist

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Herb Boyd — “William Strickland embraced the challenge of the writing of Malcolm’s life and he did so in spite of...

The Ridiculous Retiring Republicans

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Julianne Malveaux — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) needed Democrats to narrowly avert the government shutdown that loomed large if Congressional...

Again, Honoring August Wilson: Holding Hallowed Cultural Ground

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this month of remembering, reading and raising up the work and life of August Wilson (April...

Resisting the progressive artificiality of human life

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — It is a wide-spread shared conception that our future is under surveillance and siege, that our present...

Democratic governors holding the line to protect Black history and books

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). “Those who do not learn their past will never know their power,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore told theGrio. “It’s why we...

Stupid is as Stupid Does. C’mon people! — By Jim Clingman

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Jim Clingman — In March of 2018, after 25 years of doing so, I submitted my final Blackonomics column to the...