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    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...

    Tennessee Republicans Introducing “Don’t Say Reparations” Legislation

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). This push comes right off the heels of MAGA Republicans launching attacks on DEI and efforts to make equality real. Young...

    38 Migrants Including Children Confirmed Dead off Djibouti Coast After Shipwreck 

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Djibouti – Thirty-eight migrants, including children are dead after the boat they were travelling in capsized off the coast of Djibouti....

    Slavery tribunal? Africa and Caribbean unite on reparations

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Catarina Demony, Reuters — Support is building among Africa and Caribbean nations for the creation of an international tribunal on atrocities...

    Haiti leaders reach deal to form transitional council

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Agence France Presse (AFP) — Haitian leaders have finalized a deal for a temporary government to steer their Caribbean nation out...

    Mali: Defiant and alone, will the junta defeat the jihadis?

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    The small oasis town leading the fight against water privatisation

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    “We demand”: A collective statement to the African Union

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    Referring to Barbecue as a revolutionary is an insult

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Referring to Barbecue as a revolutionary is an insult to progressives especially those of us who are Haitians. By Jessie C. Legros...

    How the UAE kept the Sudan war raging

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    Charles and Inez Barron will soon co-host a new radio show called “Speaking Truth...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Charles and Inez Barron, who both served in the City Council and the Assembly, will soon co-host a new radio show...

    Dismay in Addis Ababa as ‘the soul of the city’ is razed for development

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Ethiopia’s push to attract tourism and investment has seen the demolition of a historic district in the capital, with people’s homes...

    Front Street host Charles Traylor discusses Haiti with Dr. Ron Daniels

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Aired March 30, 2024 on WVKO 1580 am in Youngstown, Ohio — Front Street host Charles Traylor is joined by special...

    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...

    220,000 Urgently Need Humanitarian Aid After Devastating Cyclone in Northeast Madagascar 

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Geneva/Antananarivo, 9 April - An estimated 220,000 people require immediate humanitarian assistance due to the catastrophic impact of tropical cyclone Gamane in...

    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...

    Failed U.S. Policy and the Crisis in Haiti

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Powered by Black World Media Network April 8, 2024Special WBAI Fund Drive Edition of Vantage Point On this edition of Vantage Point, host...

    A Memoir of Murder in the Philippines

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Patricia Evangelista’s Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country is not an easy read. An account of...

    How to take on Haiti’s gangs — By Pierre Espérance, Executive Director of the...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). America can do more to create stability and foster democracy By Pierre Espérance, Foreign Affairs — Haiti is finally addressing its profound crisis...

    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...

    Tireless activism and the latest region to go coal-free

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous — Jerry Curran has been organizing to retire the Merrimack Station coal power plant in Bow, New Hampshire for...

    Trump allies plan to reinterpret civil rights laws to protect white people: Report

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The former president’s cronies are planning to gut anti-discrimination policies should he retake the White House in November. By Nikki McCann Ramirez,...

    The Forever Failure of America’s Failed Forever Wars

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Originally published in TomDispatch. Dressed in green military fatigues and a blue garrison cap, Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane, a spokesperson for Niger’s...