DEI is Dying: What is Our Response?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Black Dollars Matter—Let’s Get Ready to Rumble Vantage Point Vignette Comments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels White supremacist-tinged White folks...

Rising Crime, Perception or Reality?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). December 2, 2024 Edition of Vantage Point The Professor, Dr. Ron Daniels is joined by special guest New York State Senator James...

Meditations on Meanings of Resistance and Resilience

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Part II. By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Nana Gwen Brooks was an internationally recognized and respected poet, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize recipient...

Lest We Forget the Betrayal of Native People

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Vantage Point VignetteComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels Originally Penned on November 28, 2024 On this day, which has come to be...

A Day for Shirley Chisholm

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — November 30 is Shirley Chisholm Day in New York, and it’s about time New York the nation,...

Majority of Britons support permanent British Museum exhibit on transatlantic slave trade

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Karen K. Ho, ARTNews — A recent poll found the majority of Britons, 53 percent, support a permanent exhibit at the British...

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...

Biden Rushes Urgently Needed Aid to Ukraine, But Why Not Haiti?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Vantage Point SpecialArticles and Essays by Dr. Ron Daniels In the aftermath of the shocking election of Donald J. Trump to a...

Report Back from IBW’s Town Hall Meeting on Presidential Election 2024, Part II

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). November 25, 2024 Edition of Vantage Point The Professor, Dr. Ron Daniels reports back from IBW’s town hall meeting on the 2024...

Urges Biden to Enact HR-40 Commission by Executive Order

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). As a follow-up to the post-presidential election National/International Town Hall Meeting convened by the Institute of the Black World 21st Century...

Annual Reparations Symposium Will Mark Opening of National Resource Center for State and Local...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Dr. Joy DeGruy, Nationally and Internationally Renowned Researcher and Educator, Author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury...

13th Annual Month of Non-Violence, Families, Voters Rights and Opportunities Goes Global

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). For 13 years, Black Women for Positive Change (BWFPC) a multi-cultural, intergenerational, inter-faith organization of Women and Good Brothers, has sponsored...

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...

It’s time to ‘Gird our Loins’ Here comes Trump 2.0 — By Don Rojas

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Don Rojas — One week after America and the world was stunned by the outcome of the national elections on November 5th, 2024, we find ourselves...

Report Back from IBW’s Town Hall Meeting on Presidential Election 2024

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). November 18, 2024 Edition of Vantage Point The Professor, Dr. Ron Daniels reports back from IBW’s town hall meeting on the 2024...

A Milestone Moment for My Son and Me A Personal Political Note

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Vantage Point VignetteComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels Today is November 16, two days after the Institute of the Black World...

Black Leaders to Assess Impact of a “Disastrous” Election

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). November 14, 2024 town hall meeting will discuss the way forward for Black America Dr. Ron Daniels, President of the New York...

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...

Why Are We Here? A Dispatch from the Nadir

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Sherrilyn Ifill — It wasn’t the Electoral College. It wasn’t gerrymandering, or even voter suppression. America was undone this week by...

Continue the Struggle, Keep the Faith and Hold the Line

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — By the time this column is read, there will be evidence of a winner of this presidential...

The Yard Brings Together Alumni, Students And Supporters For Kamala Harris

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Yard—Howard’s cultural center—hosts Harris and a community united by legacy, leadership and resilience. By Rachel Bunch, Essence — The Yard, the heart...

Harris Lost After Democrats “Abandoned Working Class People”

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). “The American people are angry and want change. And they’re right,” Sanders said. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont)...

The Haitians of Springfield, a Trump campaign target, brace for his presidency

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Many in the Ohio community are worried and praying after he won the election. By Danielle Paquette, Washington Post — This was the...