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.

National Teacher Union President To Visit Saunders Trades And Technical High School, Praise Progress...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Yonkers Public SchoolsFacebook Yonkers, NY.—American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten will lead a national delegation to Saunders Trades and Technical...

Black Owned Business Uses New Tech To Make Life Insurance More Inclusive For Underserved...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: VideoYouTube Screenshots LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, November 7, 2023 — As fears continue to grow over AI and its ability to discriminate against...

UN Human Rights Committee Calls For Moratorium On Life Without Parole In U.S.

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots New York – Last Week, the United Nations Human Rights Committee issued its conclusions and recommendations based on a...

The “Chickens Will Come Home To Roost” For Dictator Museveni, Like It Did For...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Zacharia Kanyonyozi Photos: YouTube Screenshots Dictator Yoweri Museveni has said he will not bow to pressure from official America after the...

Biden Beware, Young Folks Don’t Care

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Julianne Malveaux — There is no question how I will vote in a contest between President Joe Biden and the toxic...

Disparities and Socioeconomic Dynamics of the Global Black World

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). A Review: the “Economic Report on the State of the Black World” By The New York Christian Times. “We Need to Move...

OECS Congratulates Antigua And Barbuda On Its 42nd Anniversary Of Independence

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube ScreenshotsWikimedia Commons Friday, November 3, 2023 — The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission extends its sincere...

Cuba seeks foreign investment, thumbing nose at US sanctions

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Cuba hosted a business fair with over 800 companies from more than 60 countries on Monday as it lobbied for new...

ACLU Strongly Condemns Anti-Palestinian Immigration Bill By Republican Ryan Zinke

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots WASHINGTON — Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) introduced last week the Safeguarding Americans from Extremism Act, an extreme anti-Palestinian bill...

Committee To Protect Journalists: Journalist Casualties Rising In Widening Israel-Gaza War

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...

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Goes Viral As Fans Mock In-Season Tournament Courts

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: NBAYouTube Screenshots This season, Adam Silver and the NBA decided to try out something new with the addition of the In-Season...

Making Connections That Can Help Save the Planet

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous — If we’re going to realize the climate benefits of historic federal support for clean energy and jobs approved...

Young Entrepreneur Opens Detroit’s Only Black-Owned Grocery Store

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos:LinkedInBlackBusiness.com Meet 34-year-old Raphael Wright, the founder and CEO of Neighborhood Grocery, the only Black-owned grocery store in Detroit, Michigan, and the...

Technology, Elections Experts Discussing AI’s Benefits–And Dangers To 2024 Elections

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law and the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University...

The Resurgence Black Business Conference & Update on Fraser Nation

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). November 6, 2023 Edition of Vantage Point The Resurgence Black Business Conference & Update on Fraser Nation Vantage Point host Dr. Ron Daniels...

Actress Léa Garcia Was A Pioneer Of Black Consciousness In Brazilian History

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com).  Photos: Paulo MilenoYouTube ScreenshotsWikimedia Commons Actress Léa Garcia‘s legacy in Brazilian history is inextricably intertwined with her career and her lifelong commitment...

Anti Discrimination Laws: A Close Up Look At South Korea

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots By Tania Bore In 2019 the National Human Rights Commission of Korea performed a survey of foreign residents in South...

Nigeria: Amnesty International, Others Demand Justice For Victims Of Enforced Disappearances In Northeast

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Amnesty InternationalYouTube Screenshots Responding to the Nigerian government’s receipt of our application filed with the Economic Community of West African States...

Sharpton: Guilty Plea Of Memphis Cop Is “Step…Toward Justice” For Tyre Nichols

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots New York, NY(November 2, 2023) –– Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN), issued...

CAIR Condemns Israeli Massacre Of Fleeing Refugees, Strike On Gaza Hospital

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots (WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/3/2023) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today...

The US And Israel Stand Isolated In The World. Cuba Blockade Must End…

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots On November 2, the United Nations General Assembly debated a Motion tabled by the Republic of Cuba demanding that...

Lehman College Presents Anna Deavere Smith’s ‘Fires In The Mirror’

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: CoversYouTube Screenshots The Bronx, NY—Stepping firmly into the continuing debate and discourse on race and identity, the Lehman College theatre program...

Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble’s Presenting ‘In the Eye of a Dream’ Starting November 9

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Jeff Somers TLab Shares hosts the Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble’s In the Eye of a Dream from Thursday, November 9 to Sunday,...

Caribbean Community Congratulates Dominica On Its Forty-Fifth Anniversary Of Independence

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube ScreenshotsCARICOM The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is congratulating Dominica on its Forty-Fifth Anniversary of Independence which it celebrates on Friday 3...