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...

When the Heat and Storms Come, Lies Will Not Save Us

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous —  When the storms come harder and the heat comes earlier, it does not matter who you voted for....

On Hot Seat for the Fires in LA: Rally Around Karen Bass

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Vantage Point VignetteComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Host of the influential Hutchinson Report and Founder of the...

Report Back From the MLK People’s Convention with Chairman Larry Hamm

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com).  May 5, 2025 Edition of Vantage Point The Professor, Dr. Ron Daniels, is joined by special guest Larry Hamm, Chairman, People’s Organization...

Gratefully Offering Sacred Words and Water

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this Black History Month II: Women Focus, I reach back to retrieve and share a hallowed...

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...

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...

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...

What Will It Take? What Will It Yield?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). More than a century later woman can vote, hold office and have equal rights in theory, but that has not changed...

Trump Loves Poorly Educated People

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — After he won the Nevada Republican caucuses in 2016, the current President crowed his victory. “We won...

Kim Poole’s Tribute to Malcolm’ Mother + Where, Oh Where, Is Bev Smith?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). March 31, 2025Women’s History Month Edition of Vantage Point The Professor, Dr. Ron Daniels, is joined by special guests Kim Poole, Founder...

Contribute to the HSP Haiti Crisis Fund

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Yes, I want to help the Haiti Support Project in its efforts to assist Haiti to resolve the current crisis and...

Why Trump is bad for Africa

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Julius Ogunro, Vanguard — The US presidential election is only a few days away and polls show Vice President Kamala Harris...

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...

Its Ongoing Struggle for Life and Liberation, Pt. 2

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 2. It is important to note that the legacy and lessons we speak of here are not...

Its Ongoing Struggle for Life and Liberation

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 1. In celebrating this the 221st anniversary of the world transformative liberation struggle and Revolution of the...

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...

Black Led Rainbow Wave to the Rescue — Dedicated to Rev. Jesse L. Jackson...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Vantage Point VignetteDr. Ron Daniels, President, IBW-ACTION How is it that one of the most consequential presidential elections in American history is...

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...

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...

We Will Not Be Erased — By Dr. Julianne Malveaux

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — The 47th President has attacked our government like a bull in a China closet. He is doing...

Malcolm’s Mama Lit His Fire

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Malcolm X, the fearless leader that the actor and activist Ossie Davis described as one of Harlem’s...

President Trump Will Raise Your Energy Bills

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous —  Ratepayers beware. Team Trump’s eagerness to enrich his fossil fuel industry cronies with his “drill baby drill” (and export...

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...