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.

Unfortunately Trump got it right about Michigan

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Following his smash performance in the Michigan Primary, unfortunately Trump was right when he said “We Win Michigan, We Win the...

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...

Democratic governors holding the line to protect Black history and books

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). “Those who do not learn their past will never know their power,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore told theGrio. “It’s why we...

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,...

Advocates decry what is lost as the teaching of Black history faces growing restraints

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Cheyanne M. Daniels, The Hill — Advocates are sounding the alarm about growing pushes from conservative-led states to downplay the impact...

The MAGA enemies list is growing, and so are the odds that you’re on...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Svante Myrick, The Hill — As the Republican primaries slog toward the climax of a likely Trump nomination, I can’t help thinking...

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...