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.

Morocco/Spain: Cover-Up Continues Into Deadly Melilla Border Crossing Tragedy

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots Families of the dead and missing are trapped in limbo as their attempts to find out what happened to...

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Federal Court Cannot Review Claims Of Legal Innocence

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Wikimedia Commons The Supreme Court ruled last week that a person in federal prison for conduct that is no longer a...

Ethiopia: Abiy Embarks On Palace Vanity Project–While Economy Crashes, War Crisis Continues

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com).  Photos: YouTube Screenshots Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed‘s palace building vanity project is raising eyebrows in a country where the economy is...

UN humanitarian office says Northern Gaza is ‘Hell on Earth’ as death toll climbs...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). “It is a life of fear by day and darkness at night and what do you tell your children in such...

Russia’s Ukraine Invasion: How Do We Find A Peaceful Solution To End War?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Jerry Tetalman Photos: Wikimedia Commons The war in Ukraine has destabilized and polarized the international order. It pits two nuclear-armed superpowers, the United...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser Awarded Inaugural Marion Barry Award

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube (Washington D.C.) – The African American Mayors Association (AAMA) is delighted to honor AAMA Board Trustee and Mayor of Washington,...

AOC Introduces Amendment Banning Israel From Using U.S. Aid To Deploy White Phosphorous Against...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) introduced an amendment expressly banning Israel from using United States military...

Report: European Union Failing To Protect Human Rights Of Most Vulnerable

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Human Rights  Watch Photos: YouTube Screenshots European Union and its member states renewed their commitments to uphold and protect rights in 2023,...

The Institute of the Black World 21st Century’s Delegation to Grenada October 19th Communique

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Honoring the Life & Legacy of MauriceBishop and the People’s RevolutionaryGovernment of Grenada Background October 17 – 21, 2023, the Institute of the...

Nana Garvey’s Radical Redemption and Unfettered Freedom

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — On this African Liberation Day, in this year of our people 6263 (2023), as always, we of...

Black Americans still face challenges chasing homeownership

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Black homeownership is often caught up in the institutional failures of the past and the continued transgressions today. By Ronda Lee, Yahoo!...

Does New House Speaker Mike Johnson Represent The Rise Of American Theocracy?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Wikimedia CommonsYouTube Screenshots What does it mean to US democracy that Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House, third in line...

Celtics’ Jaylen Brown: I Want To “Bring Black Wall Street Here To Boston”

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots Jaylen Brown is very good at basketball. Ever since the Boston Celtics drafted him in 2016, he has become...

Sierra Leonean Protests U.S. Ambassador’s Interference in Elections

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The following letter was written by Mohammed Barrie, a Sierra Leonean American, to US Ambassador David Reimer, criticizing him for his...

SCOTUS’ Destructive Affirmative Action Decision Won’t Stop Progress Towards Equitable Society

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: NCHEYouTube Screenshots The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to end affirmative action in higher education is much more than just...

SCOTUS Murders Affirmative Action: Struggle To Bend The Arc Must Continue

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube ScreenshotsWikimedia Commons One of my heroes, Ella Baker, the fearless fighter for civil, human and labor rights, a tireless organizer...

Ethical Society Of Police Partnering In Back To School Extravaganza

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Event FlyerEthical Society of Police ST LOUIS, MO – Ethical Society of Police (ESOP) is partnering with Higher Heights Ministry to...

World Athletics Championships: Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn Leads Caribbean Delegation Competing In Women’s 100-Meter...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube ScreenshotsWikimedia Commons The Caribbean will have a strong delegation in the women’s 100-metre hurdles finals later this afternoon at the...

ACLU North Carolina Report: Disorderly Conduct Complaints Filed Against Black Students Four Times The...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTubeVideo Screenshots RALEIGH — A new report by the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina found that between 2017 to...

The Crisis In Journalism And ‘The Roadmap For Local News’

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube On Thursday, a group of local-news experts and practitioners published The Roadmap for Local News: An Emergent Approach to Meeting...

Peace, Love, and Reparations Benefit Concert

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Reparations United and Black Pact presents Peace, Love, and Reparations Benefit Concert Taking place on July 1, 2023, in the heart of...

Homicide At Bullock Latest In Alabama Prison Violence Crisis

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube Brian Wanner, 47, died on February 4, two days after suffering an assault at Bullock Correctional Facility near Union Springs,...

The Supreme Court: A Nest Of Clueless Overprivileged Elites

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Jim Hightower Photos: Video & YouTube Screenshots Here’s an embarrassing turn of events: The six right-wing ideologues now controlling the Supreme Court...

Having Our Say Against Carbon Pollution

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous — More than one million Americans told the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week that they aren’t willing to...