Trump Hosts African Leaders After Past Insults and Controversial Claims

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By April RyanBlackPressUSA Washington Bureau Chief and White House Correspondent President Trump will meet with African leaders at the White House on...

UN appoints new envoy to Haiti amid calls for a more aggressive international response

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Carlos Ruiz Massieu succeeds María Isabel Salvador as special representative of the UN Secretary-General amidst Haiti’s fragile political transition, escalating gang...

Relentlessly Resisting Genocide, Injustice and Oppression Everywhere

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As Trump and Netanyahu huddle together in their twin blood-soaked cocoons and caves of hubris and holocaust...

The Big Ugly Boondogle Cripples Our Future — by Dr. Julianne Malveaux

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — The big ugly boondoggle, which our President calls The Big Beautiful Bill, is a disgusting transfer of...

How Sahel coups revealed ECOWAS flaws

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The 2024 crisis exposed structural faults at the core of the West African regional body. At 50, can the once-great institution...

Meeting the Demands of This Decisive Moment

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As we move and make our way through the troubled, treacherous and trap-laden waters of our time,...

Deals Over Diplomacy, Minerals Over Manners

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). For some. the move by President Trump is ambitious and bold- and for others, it has a strong tinge of controversy...

Daring to Oppose War and Practice Peace

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this critical moment of warmongering and warmaking and the awesome waste of lives and of needed...

Fighting Climate Meltdown and the Death Cult — by Ted Glick

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ted Glick – “This is a fight for life. And like all fights, you need a tremendous amount of bravery to...

The Real Truth Behind Ethiopia’s Current State

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Video Source: TechiLysta — Ethiopia looks stable on the surface, glittering skylines, shiny museums, and televised progress. But behind the facade...

Nigerian President Tinubu’s pardon of ‘Ogoni Nine’ draws ethnic group’s rejection

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ope Adetayo, Reuters — Nigeria’s Ogoni activists on Friday rejected a posthumous pardon for nine members executed three decades ago by...

We Need the Joy of Black Music Month — by Dr. Julianne Malveaux

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Dyana Williams, Kenny Gamble and Ed Wright founded Black Music Month in June 1979. Also known as...

American Democracy is at a Pivotal Moment and None of Us Should be Silent

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous —  None of us should be silent about the recent use of federal agents by this administration to bully,...

The “Liberation” of California? — The MAGA dictator has moved us closer to a...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Trump administration’s big lie is that only the most vicious and violent of those in the country without proper documentation...

Defending Black Immigrants, Others and Ourselves

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In the midst of our community conversations and participation in the urgent and ever-widening resistance to the...

Again, Remembering and Honoring Our Father: His Spirit, Mind, Speech and Specialness

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Here, as Father’s Day approaches, I am retrieving one of the many portraits of our father...

What Would We Do Without Immigrants? — by Dr. Julianne Malveaux

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Douglas Turner Ward (1930-2021) wrote a searing play, Days of Absence that depicted the way life might...

Culturally Responsive Education for Black Youth — Remembering Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Brenda M. Greene —  Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu, national educational consultant, publisher, and the author of over 30 books that address...

Juneteenth should be an impetus to heal from legacies of enslavement

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). (Black PR Wire) In anticipation of this year’s observance of Juneteenth, the Global Circle for Reparations and Healing today released a...

America 5 Years After George Floyd’s Murder

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). WASHINGTON – Five years ago, at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in South Minneapolis, George Floyd died after...

Fighting Fascism, Then and Now — By Ted Glick

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ted Glick – “Veterans and military family members are being fired by the thousands from federal jobs. Our health care is...

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...

Trump The Inciter in Chief — By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Earl Ofari Hutchinson — On Tuesday, June10, I was at the National Guard deployment facility on Alameda St. in DTLA. The...

Nonviolent Tactics and the Fascist Threat — By Ted Glick

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ted Glick – “Anger against injustice and oppression is not just legitimate; it is necessary to successfully build a movement for...