African Diaspora Leaders

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.

Harris to travel to Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia this month

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Brett Samuels, The Hill — Vice President Harris will travel to Africa in late March to visit Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia...

AG Stops Discriminatory Practices At LI Real Estate Brokerage

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced a settlement with Coldwell Banker, stopping the real estate...

CUNY Summit For Peace & Justice Starts March 31

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: Flyer Peace Action is the nation’s largest grassroots peace advocacy organization. For years now, our chapter at Peace Action has been...

Cricket: West Indies “Dangerous” Says South Africa’s Fortuin

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube EAST LONDON, South Africa – South Africa are taking nothing for granted against West Indies in the three-match One-Day International...

Reducing Prison Populations And Creating Safer Communities

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube The Brennan Center proposed an innovative approach to criminal justice reform. We call it the Public Safety and Prison Reduction...

Former Mexican Governor Sentenced For Money Laundering

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: Wikimedia Commons HOUSTON – The former governor of Tamaulipas, Mexico, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for accepting over...

Tucker Carlson Continues To Knowingly Lie About 2020 Election

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube When it comes to the 2020 election, Fox News host Tucker Carlson has both a public position and a private...

Global Report: Dozens Killed, Thousands Maimed, By Police Misuse Of Rubber Bullets

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube Security forces across the world are routinely misusing rubber and plastic bullets and other law enforcement weapons to violently suppress...

Black Mayors Applauds Biden’s Gun Violence Plan

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Black Star News has been producing stellar investigative journalism since 1997, including focusing on police brutality and other abuses targeting marginalized...

Red States That Are Caving To Conspiracy Theories

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube This month, Florida, Missouri, and West Virginia became the latest states to announce they’re leaving the Electronic Registration Information Center,...

SOBWCV to Assess Crisis of Displacing Black People and Black Culture

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Gentrification as a State of Emergency in Black America – SOBWCV to assess crisis of displacing Black people and Black culture Dr....

Zambian Police Detain 2 Millennium TV Journalists Covering Protest

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: Namo Phiri and Millennium TV Lusaka, March 14, 2023—Zambian authorities should refrain from detaining members of the press and should ensure...

New Orleans: Cop Sentenced For Sexually Assaulting 15-Year-Old

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office A former police officer with the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) was sentenced in federal court...

Kentucky: Prison Lieutenant Convicted Of Covering Up Inmate Assaults

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube After a six-day trial, a federal jury convicted former Bureau of Prisons Lieutenant Kevin Pearce, 38, on two counts of...

Prime Minister of Barbados to Attend Global Conference in Baltimore

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Barbados Prime Minister, the Honorable Mia Amor Mottley to Deliver Major Address on Reparations Don Rojas, Director of Communications and International Relations...

Women’s Rights: Underrepresented, Overlooked, Or Not Given Credit

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: Sarah Chu (Above Sarah Chu Innocence Project Sr. Advisor on Forensic Science Policy, with her daughter.) Women’s History Month is...

DOJ: “Hate Crimes Are Top Priorities” For Justice Department

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube The Justice Department issued following statement from Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta on the FBI’s announcement of the 2021 hate...

The Right’s Dangerous Assaults On Teaching Truth

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube When Florida governor Ron DeSantis and Florida’s Department of Education make headlines for banning the new Advanced Placement African American...

Tyler Perry To Receive Award At NAN Convention

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: Event Flyer New York, NY (Tuesday, March 14, 2023) – Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder and President of the National Action Network...

Ethiopia’s Tigray Genocide: Where Do We Go From Here?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: Wikimedia Commons I was really holding off on writing about Tigray not because I don't love or feel a connection to...

Wag The Dog: Museveni Using Anti-Gay Actions As Diversions

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube What is happening today in Uganda regarding gay rights reminds me of the political term “Wag the Dog”. This term, often...

How It Feels to Be Hungry

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Beverly Gologorsky, TomDispatch — My long-dead father used to say, “Every human being deserves to taste a piece of cake.” Though...

Lincoln Project Tells Trump To Reclaim Fox Audience

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube March 13, 2022 - In a new ad, The Lincoln Project tells Donald Trump that Fox News is ignoring him...

Report: Global Freedom Declines For 17th Consecutive Year

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube "Infringement on freedom of expression has long been a key driver of global democratic decline. Over the last 17 years,...