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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.

Mary Ellen Pleasant, the Haitian-descended entrepreneur and abolitionist who built a fortune in 19th-century...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Overview: Originally published on Feb. 3, 2019 in The Haitian Times, this article explores the life of Mary Ellen Pleasant, a...

IBW’s Pilgrimage of History and Hope to Grenada

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Vantage Point VignetteComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels I have just returned from Grenada along with my Executive Assistant Paulann Paterson....

Vantage Point: The Presidential Election

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). November 11, 2024 Edition of Vantage Point The Professor, Dr. Ron Daniels is joined by special guest Bill Fletcher, Author, Commentator, Veteran...

Ready for Reparations in NY State?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com).  December 16, 2024 Edition of Vantage Point The Professor, Dr. Ron Daniels talks reparations in New York State and opens up the...

Vantage Point: Reflections on the Million Man March

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). October 28, 2024 Edition of Vantage Point An open forum with the Dr. Ron Daniels aka The Professor on the Soapbox. Audience...

What Is The Difference Between ICE and Police?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Understanding the roles of ICE and the NYPD can help immigrants better protect their rights. Overview: Documented reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs...

When They Tell You About Their Own, Believe Them

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III — (TriceEdneyWire.com) – “I don’t know who you are and I don’t know why you like...

Trump 2.0 and the implications for the Caribbean and the Americas — By Dr....

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Michael Witter — Even more urgently than in previous USA presidential elections, the Caribbean needs to anticipate the kinds of...

Racism or Politics? “They’re Eating Cats and Dogs”

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). You Are Here: Home » Blog » Commentaries/Opinions » Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Racism or Politics? “They’re Eating Cats and Dogs” About Earl...

Honoring Malcolm X’s Mother – Louise Little Memorial

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Video by Grenada Broadcasting Network (GBN) This video features Grenadian news coverage of IBW’s recent delegation visit to Grenada, underscoring our ongoing...

IBW’s Grenada Action Agenda – Institute of the Black World 21st Century

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Fostering collaboration with government and civil society to honor history and support people-based democracy and development in Grenada Overview Pursuant to the commitment...

A Mother-Son Message of Resistance to the World

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 1. As we move from February, the month of the martyrdom of Nana Haji Malcolm X and...

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s Reparations Are Due! exhibit and the National Resource Center for State...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By FirstRepair — Join us for an afternoon of creativity, history, and activism as FirstRepair presents Reparations Are Due!, an exhibit by...

The Liberty in Laundry Act Sounds Like a Joke. Sadly It’s Not.

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous —  The incoming Trump administration is supposedly interested in “efficiency.” It has a whole quasigovernmental department – the Elon...

Unforgivable Blackness of Liberation, Resistance and Radical Refusal

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The most recent fabricated, false and fear-mongering ranting by Trump, Vance and various other MAGA advocates and...

75 years after Dumarsais Estimé’s fall, what Haiti can still learn from his vision

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). As the nation unravels today, the legacy of Haiti’s progressive president Estimé echoes louder than ever By Stéphane Pierre-Paul — It would be...

Jimmy Carter – Faith in Action

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — As our beloved 37th President’s body makes its way from Plains, Georgia to Atlanta to the US Capitol to...

Malcolm X Day Edition — Report Back from Honoring Louise Langdon Little in Grenada

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). May 19, 2025 Malcolm X Day Edition of Vantage Point The Professor, Dr. Ron Daniels, is joined by special guests Schmeeka Simpson...

MSJ Statement on Developments in International Relations Imperial Control Vs. South-South Relations

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) was the first to make a clear statement (issued on March 2nd) condemning the policy...

China accuses US of fueling Haiti’s crisis with failed arms embargo

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). During UN Security Council debate, China says U.S. economic “bullying” and lax arms control have empowered Haiti’s gangs. By The Haitian Times...

Strategy and Tactics for the Burgeoning Resistance — By Ted Glick

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ted Glick – The wide mix of acts of resistance over the past week have made it clear that there is...

Justice for Marcus Garvey: The Way Forward

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Date and time Wednesday, February 26 · 6 – 8pm EST Location Howard University School of Law2900 Van Ness Street Northwest Damon J. Keith...

Modi meets CARICOM leaders

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Bert Wilkinson, Caribbean Life — This is only the second time that an Indian Prime Minister had visited Guyana since Indira...

Black Lives Matter Grassroots Statement on the Election of Donald Trump

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). As we face the reality of another term for blatant racist and adjudicated rapist, Donald Trump, it is crucial to remember...