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.

Slavery tribunal? Africa and Caribbean unite on reparations

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Catarina Demony, Reuters — Support is building among Africa and Caribbean nations for the creation of an international tribunal on atrocities...
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Vantage Point: Dr. Brenda Greene

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). March 11, 2024Women’s History Month Edition of Vantage Point On this Women’s History Month edition of Vantage Point, host Dr. Ron Daniels...

Prisoners, unions sue Alabama, alleging ‘modern-day slavery’

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The lawsuit claims that Alabama’s system of prison labor generates massive profits for private businesses and revenues for the state by...

Haiti leaders reach deal to form transitional council

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Agence France Presse (AFP) — Haitian leaders have finalized a deal for a temporary government to steer their Caribbean nation out...

AIPAC is an Enemy of Humanity — By Julianne Malveaux

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Julianne Malveaux — Let me begin with the obligatory statements. What happened on October 7, 2023, was horrible. Hamas launched an...

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...

One woman’s battle to push Africa’s space race

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Cameroonian scientist Marie Makuate has been at the forefront of using information harvested by satellites to help save the lives of...

A Classical African Conception of Womanhood

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In the midst of the current state of the world with all its faces and forces of...

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...

To Repair, Renew and Remake the World

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Again, the celebration of Earth Day this month gives us space and time to focus on our...

Biden’s walk can beat Trump’s talk with the working class, but he needs to...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Spoiler alert! Donald Trump will be allowed to remain on the ballot this fall. By Ben Jealous — One way or another, the...

Concerning Israel, the US, Europe and Hitlerian Havoc — By Dr. Maulana Karenga

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As we witness and work and struggle to end the Israeli genocidal war against the Palestinian people,...

Trump has already laid out his 5-step Fascist plan

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Robert Reich — On Friday, Trump posted a video featuring an image of President Biden hog-tied —with hands and feet bound...

Communiqué – 46th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Forty-Sixth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held from 25 –...

No Place to Make a Vote of Thanks

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). On the long tradition of Black third-party activism. By Marc Blanc, HNN — From its start on June 5, 2023, Cornel West’s chaotic...

14 wrecked slavers’ ships are identified in Bahamas

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Largest cluster of sunken vessels from the 18th and 19th centuries have been identified, bearing ‘silent witness’ to the colonial past. By...

Front Street host Charles Traylor discusses Haiti with Dr. Ron Daniels

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Aired March 30, 2024 on WVKO 1580 am in Youngstown, Ohio — Front Street host Charles Traylor is joined by special...

Charles and Inez Barron will soon co-host a new radio show called “Speaking Truth...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Charles and Inez Barron, who both served in the City Council and the Assembly, will soon co-host a new radio show...

UN human rights chief urges states to act on slavery reparations

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Emma Farge, Reuters — The United Nations human rights chief called for countries to take concrete steps on reparations for people...

Temporary channel opens as authorities strive to clear Key Bridge wreckage

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Megan Sayles, AFRO — It is still unclear when the rubble of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the Dali container...

‘We are history in the making’

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). You Are Here: Home » Blog » Reparations » California’s Case for Reparations: ‘We are history in the making’ About IBW21 ...

A Forum/Rally in Support of Haiti

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). May 5, 2024 — Haiti on Fire: Mobilizing to Address the Crisis in the First Black Republic. A Forum/Rally in Support...

The March Against Displacement in Harlem and Palestine!

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Herb Boyd — First I heard the drumming, then the chants of “Viva, Viva Palestina!” from a long line of protesters...

Spaces as reparations for Black youth

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Investing in programs, resources, and physical spaces by and for Black youth is critical to narrowing generationally inherited disparities in wealth,...