The Smithsonian Looks at How the Slave Trade Shaped the World

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). “In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a...

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...

Reparation Information Thought Series – Reparations Rising: California’s Next Steps

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Monday, September 23, 2024, 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT — Join us for Reparations Rising: California’s Next Steps to...

Joint Center responds to unprecedented removal of EEOC Commissioners

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). WASHINGTON — In response to President Donald Trump’s decision to fire two commissioners of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the...

Intensifying Our Righteous and Relentless Struggle

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — This is a necessary revisiting of a critical issue, reclaiming King in the turbulent and taxing context...

Eddy Kenzo, Bobi Wine, Bebe Cool … musicians who turn to politics

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Musinguzi Blanshe, The Africa Report — Popular musician Eddy Kenzo (aka Edrisah Musuuza) was appointed to be Uganda’s new senior advisor...

FirstRepair and BLIS Collective Release Single “Agitate, Educate, Organize” (AEO) to Amplify Black Reparations...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). New single features Young RJ (of Slum Village), Ras Kass, Nkechi Taifa, Kymrence Young, and BLIS Co-founder and Guest Rapper Trevor...

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...

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...

Vantage Point: The Cost of Living Index

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). February 3, 2025 Edition of Vantage Point: The Cost of Living Index | Trump’s Assault on the People’s Safety Net Jennifer Jones...

Harris’s appeal to Gen-Z and millennials serves as a bridge between generations

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By David W. Marshall, Trice Edney News Wire — It is refreshing to see a leader like Vice President Kamala Harris who understands...

The Ugly Irony of Jan 6th: Certifying the Election of an Insurrectionist

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). You Are Here: Home » Blog » News & Current Affairs » Vantage Point Radio » Professor on the Soapbox: The Ugly...

IBW Congratulates Chairman Richard Adams on Receiving Prestigious Proclamation from City of Pittsburgh

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Mayor Ed Gainey and the city honor Richard Adams for over four decades of leadership, integrity, and civic engagement The Institute of...

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...

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...

What Would Martin Do? By Dr. Julianne Malveaux

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). What would Dr. King do this birthday? By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — What would Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. do to celebrate his...

A True Revolutionary, Part II

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). October 7, 2024 Edition of Vantage Point On this edition of Vantage Point, host Dr. Ron Daniels aka The Professor is joined...

Trump administration to cancel student visas of pro-Palestinian protesters

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Andrea Shalal, Reuters — Summary • Legal expert says order would be unconstitutional• Order vows immediate action by Justice Department• Trumps says US...

Concerns for our people, struggle and world

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — No one can miss or mistake the deep and insistent anxiety, apprehension and righteous anger that precede...

It’s Not Just the Fascism

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). This column is particularly for those people who live in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona...

Double Down on Black Voters

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Vantage Point VignetteDr. Ron Daniels, President, IBW-ACTION I recently penned a piece entitled, Democracy in Danger: Black Led Rainbow Wave to the...

Why is Trump Hating on Haitians?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). September 23, 2024 Edition of Vantage Point On this edition of Vantage Point, host Dr. Ron Daniels aka The Professor is joined...

Rev. Dr. Robert Turner Discusses Reparations, Faith, and Social Justice with Dr. Jamal Bryant

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Dr. Jamal Bryant welcomes Reverend Dr. Robert Turner, NAARC Commissioner and Pastor of Empowerment Temple, Baltimore, MD, to the “Let’s Be...

Chicago Inspector General asks state regulators to ban some CPD officers from law enforcement

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmnpdR6nouY Source: ABC 7 Chicago As the I-Team reported, at least a dozen CPD officers have been linked to the Proud Boys, Oath...