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.

Letter to CARICOM president in response invitation to meet in Jamaica

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). You Are Here: Home » Blog » News & Current Affairs » Initiative Posts » Haiti Support Project (HSP) Posts » Montana...

Trump allies plan to reinterpret civil rights laws to protect white people: Report

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The former president’s cronies are planning to gut anti-discrimination policies should he retake the White House in November. By Nikki McCann Ramirez,...

Rising child fatalities in Gaza amid starvation and medical shortages

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Amidst the rubble of conflict, Gaza’s youngest bear the brunt of an escalating humanitarian crisis, with malnutrition and lack of medical...

A Conversation with Dr. Ron Daniels aka the Professor

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Powered by Black World Media Network April 15, 2024Special WBAI Fund Drive Edition of Vantage Point A special WBAI fund drive edition of...
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CARICOM urged to maximize economic opportunities being provided through the AU

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). THE FULL STORY By Garfield L. Angus, JIS — A call has been made for Caribbean Community (CARICOM) States to maximise economic opportunities...

Let Them Eat Flakes: Inflation, Nutrition and Reality

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Julianne Malveaux — Remember the parable of the blind men and the elephant? As each approached an elephant and tried to...

A story of reparations and healing from New Zealand

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). New Zealand’s reparations for the Māori people are an example the United States can follow in pursuit of racial justice for...

Again, Honoring August Wilson: Holding Hallowed Cultural Ground

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this month of remembering, reading and raising up the work and life of August Wilson (April...
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Haiti on Fire, Part II: A Message for Barbeque: Be Like Malcolm

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Vantage Point VignettesComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels Haiti is on fire now in large part because of the terrorism being...

Will Gaza Be Biden’s Vietnam?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Vantage Point VignettesComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels But for his ill-conceived and ill-fated support for the Vietnam War, Lyndon Baines Johnson...

Tireless activism and the latest region to go coal-free

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous — Jerry Curran has been organizing to retire the Merrimack Station coal power plant in Bow, New Hampshire for...

Appointments announced to New York Reparations Commission

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Governor Hochul, Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins and Speaker Heastie Announce Appointments to New York State’s Commission to Study Reparations and Racial Justice. Albany,...

Comprehensive Reparations for Black America Primer

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). What are Comprehensive Reparations? The National African American Reparations Commission supports Comprehensive Reparations for Black America. Comprehensive reparations are expansive and focus...

Is a gang-led coup next?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Haiti is in chaos after a massive prison break and gangs calling for the resignation of its prime minister. How did...
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Is Black political power important to Democrats?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dayvon Love, Afro News — People who are familiar with the work of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS) are used...
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The dark turn in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ saga

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Following the federal raids on the residences of rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs in Miami and New York, the hip-hop community...

The Montana Accord Movement to the Rescue

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Vantage Point VignettesComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels Haiti, our first Black Republic, is a virtual failed state where vicious gangs...
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Congressman Jonathan Jackson calls on the U.S. and its allies to seize the moment...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Statement by Congressman Jonathan Jackson —  I welcome the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry of Haiti. This resignation was long overdue...

A Cosmopolitan Modernism

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance. By Rachel Hunter Himes, The Nation — In January 1969, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened...

Eric Mathew Gairy was not a champion of Grenada’s independence.

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Lennie Fleary — After I wrote about Eric Matthew Gairy of Grenada, someone told me Gairy had brought independence to Grenada,...

109-year-old Tulsa massacre survivors get day in court

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, thought to be the worst single act of white supremacist violence against...

How to take on Haiti’s gangs — By Pierre Espérance, Executive Director of the...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). America can do more to create stability and foster democracy By Pierre Espérance, Foreign Affairs — Haiti is finally addressing its profound crisis...

Israeli peace activists are more anguished than ever − in a movement that has...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Secular Jewish groups have historically made up the majority of solidarity and peace groups. But Palestinian citizens and observant Jews are...

The (Identity) Politics of Reparations

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Can ”reparationist“ be a distinct identity, akin to feminist or abolitionist, a label worn with pride by progressives who believe in...