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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.

Reparations Now! – Oct 29, 2025

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Reparations Now! Holding Candidates Accountable With New York State having a Community Commission on Reparations, we are the closest we have ever...

in Senegal very few planted areas show progress

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Annah Lake Zhu and Amadou Ndiaye, The Conversation — Africa’s Great Green Wall project began as an ambitious plan to build...

Coral reefs are dying—We’ve Crossed the First Tipping Point. All of America Will Pay...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous —  My parents’ marriage was against the law in Maryland in 1966, so they moved west. By the time...

The Genius of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson — Legacy and Lessons from the 1984...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). A Special Two-Hour Edition of Vantage PointMonday, October 20, 2025, from 3–5 PM ET Dr. Ron Daniels, “The Professor,” hosts a special...

OWORAC statement for the 5th Africa Week of Action against water privatisation

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Public water for climate resilience Today, civil society organisations, community networks, youth groups, trade unions and grassroots movements across Africa converge to...

What’s Going On? Open Forum with The Professor

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Dr. Ron Daniels aka the Professor, opens the phone lines for an open forum on current issues and public concerns. Topics...

What’s Going On, Part II – Chaos, Confusion, and Confrontation with Trump

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Dr. Ron Daniels aka the Professor, is joined by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, talk show host, author, and founder of the Los...

The Million Man March and Day of Absence — Reflections on the Legacy and...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com).  Dr. Ron Daniels aka The Professor, is joined by Dr. Maulana Karenga, Professor and chairman, Department of Africana Studies, CSU Long...

A Deal Between Two Gangsters

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Vantage Point VignetteComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels It appears that the bloody, genocidal collective punishment and war against Palestinian human...

Making Communities Safer and Stronger

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By James J. Nolan, Natasha C., Pratt-Harris, Kevin Daniels, Paul C., Archibald, Henry H. Brownstein, Kimberly Glanville, and Raiana Davis, Fall...

Questioning America, Walking Off the Plantation

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — This is a sankofa remembrance, retrieval and reflection on one of the most important freedom fighters in...

Fearing a Second Blacklist?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Revolution promised freedom. Reconstruction promised equality. Neither fight is finished. By Ben Jealous —  In my house, two legacies face each other. On...

Not Your Ordinary Shutdown – Lives at Risk

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — The federal government shut down on October 1, and the impasse between Congressional Democrats and Republicans suggest...

NUL Declares’ State of Emergency’ for Black America in 2025 Report

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The report also warns of a rise in digital extremism. “During the...

Who gains when the economy implodes?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — The United States economy is cruising for a bruising. Inflation keeps ticking up thanks to, among other...

Making Communities Safer and Stronger

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By James J. Nolan, Natasha C., Pratt-Harris, Kevin Daniels, Paul C., Archibald, Henry H. Brownstein, Kimberly Glanville, and Raiana Davis, Fall...

Beyond the Control of Free Speech

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). How the death of Charlie Kirk exposed so much more. A View From the Battlefield by Jamala Rogers — The murder of MAGA-mentored...

¡Presente Assata, Presente!

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Many will tell her story, but she told her story — and ours — best. By Herb Boyd — The name...

Uganda opposition leader Bobi Wine cleared to run against Museveni in 2026

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The singer-turned-politician is hoping to unseat longtime president, who is seeking a seventh term. By Caolán Magee, Al Jazeera — Ugandan opposition leader...

Fearing a Second Blacklist?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The March on Washington shows how artists, through solidarity and courageous love, helped bring the last one to an end. By Ben...

When Presidents Can’t Take a Joke, Democracy Suffers

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous —  A Midwestern schoolteacher once told her class that a sense of humor is a sign of intelligence. “Look...

DC and Chocolate Cities in Danger

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Join us in person or via livestream for an Emergency Summit: DC and Chocolate Cities in Danger — “Putting I.C.E. on...

Voting Rights Anniversary — By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD — August 6, 2025 marked the 60th anniversary of the ratification of the Voting Rights Act of...

Being Our Own First-Responders and Self-Savers

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — It is a fundamental teaching and uncontested contention in Kawaida philosophy that there is an endless library...