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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.

Cricket: West Indies “Dangerous” Says South Africa’s Fortuin

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube EAST LONDON, South Africa – South Africa are taking nothing for granted against West Indies in the three-match One-Day International...

Tyre Nichols: 5 Black Memphis Cops Arrested In Brutal Beating Death

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: Memphis Police Department Five Memphis officers have been charged in the brutal beating death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, who died on...

NY AG James Releases Footage From Investigation Into NYPD Killing Of Eric Duprey

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Video Screenshots NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today released video that her office obtained as part of its...

AFSCME Launches ‘Staff The Front Lines’ Bus Tour, In New York, Aimed At Solving...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: AFSCME WASHINGTON – States, cities, towns and schools are facing an unprecedented staffing crisis, as hiring for public sector jobs has...

CUNY Summit For Peace & Justice Starts March 31

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: Flyer Peace Action is the nation’s largest grassroots peace advocacy organization. For years now, our chapter at Peace Action has been...

Caribbean: OECS Commences Work On New Sustainable Tourism Policy

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The existing OECS Common Tourism Policy dates back to 2011 and the new, updated version seeks to develop a fully comprehensive...

California: End Of Emergency Food Benefits To Impact Millions

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) A gallon of milk, a dozen eggs, a loaf of bread, a pound of chicken: That...

What’s missing from the congressional report

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Anthony DiMaggio, Portside — In the run-up to the two-year anniversary of January 6th (J6), the United States House Select Committee on...

The Dependency of Poor Nations

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia emerged in the post-World War II era as appendages of a world system that...

Education In Crisis: AFT Launches Ad Touting Real Solutions Over Politics

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: AFTYouTube Screenshots WASHINGTON—The 1.7 million-member American Federation of Teachers launched a major ad blitz today highlighting the important work educators are...

Nearly 100 Restrictive State Laws Added Since SCOTUS Gutted Voting Rights Act 10 Years...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots Ten years ago, the Supreme Court eviscerated a central component of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v....

NY Community Organizations Denounce Adam’s Austerity Budget “Death Sentence”

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: NEW YORK, NY – Following the budget vote Friday, Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) and NYC Budget Justice campaign thank...

Governor Of DRC’s Equateur Province Defies Court Order To Reopen Radio Télévision Sarah

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Steve MwanyoYouTube Screenshot Kinshasa, June 13, 2023—Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo must comply with the court decision authorizing Radio...

Barbados PM Mottley Holds Talks With Chinese Premier Li

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). They signed cooperation documents on the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, the blue economy, medical and health care, and news...

AAMA Supports New Orleans Black Mayor Against Recall

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...

Mount Sinai Receives $6.2 Million Grant For Clinical Care Of Long Lyme Disease

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Wikimedia Commons (New York, NY – September 20, 2023) – Mount Sinai’s Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance has announced a...

Kentucky: Former Correctional Officer Pleads Guilty To Assault

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: Screenshot A former Kentucky correctional officer pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward B. Atkins to two charges of deprivation...

Diddy Launches Empower Global Marketplace For Black Businesses

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Facebook Diddy has officially launched Empower Global, a digital marketplace where he hopes Black-owned businesses will thrive. As of Wednesday (July...

People’s Budget Coalition: “Mayor Eric Adams Has Forced Dangerous Cuts…”

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: The People’s Plan JUNE 30, 2023 – The following members of the People’s Budget coalition – Alliance for Quality Education, Democratic...

New Rochelle: NYCLU Demands Transparency In Police Killing Of Jarrel Garris

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Video Screenshots NEW ROCHELLE – Tonight and in the coming days, community members and advocates will rally throughout New Rochelle in...

Mississippi ‘Death Squad’: Racist Cops Plead Guilty To Torturing Two Black Men

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: People’s WorldYouTube ScreenshotsJACKSON, Miss. (AP)—Men who had sworn an oath to protect and serve were huddled on the back porch...

Republican Shutdown Showdown: MAGA Republicans Like Trump Say They Want A Government Shutdown

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: “I’d shut down the government if they can’t make an appropriate deal, absolutely.”—Donald Trump this week on Meet the Press Speaking as a...

Trump Attacks Lincoln Project In Dark Dystopian CPAC Speech

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube March 4, 2022 - In an insane CPAC speech that was as dark and dystopian as any he’s ever given,...

‘Hair Are Us’ Founders Helping Other Black Business Women

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...