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.

Fighting MAGA 2023: Making A Down Payment On American Democracy

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube The Lincoln Project releases the following 'Interested Parties Memo'. In it, we describe our view on the state of politics...

ACLU Applauds Proposed HUD Fair Housing Rule

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: NAACP WASHINGTON — Thursday the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released a proposal to restore a regulation implementing the...

Issa Rae Hosting Chat On Challenges To Small Businesses

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: Black PR Wire (Black PR Wire) MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In honor of Black History Month, Intuit (Nasdaq: INTU) QuickBooks and...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser Awarded Inaugural Marion Barry Award

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube (Washington D.C.) – The African American Mayors Association (AAMA) is delighted to honor AAMA Board Trustee and Mayor of Washington,...

Police Brutalize Black Woman Over Missing Cheese On Burger

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...

As its only remaining elected officials depart, Haiti reaches a breaking point

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). In the years since Haiti last held a democratic election, the challenges facing the country have spiraled: gang violence, inflation, a...

Who are the five Black governors who came before Maryland’s Wes Moore?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Wes Moore will become Maryland’s first Black governor Wednesday. Here are the five Black governors who came before him, from Oscar...

The Man Who Changed Colors by Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Review by Herb Boyd — The style and novelistic pace Bill Fletcher, Jr. established in his debut book The Man Who Fell from...

The Church of England’s Giant Reparations Step

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By David Comissiong — On Monday 9th January 2023, a devastating blow was delivered to all those vested interests that would perversely...

For Black voters, great expectations of America’s lone Black governor

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). For many Black voters in Maryland who helped lift Wes Moore to victory, this moment — as he prepares to take...

DON DE MATÉRIELS INFORMATIQUES À L’UAC

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). TBC AFRICA-USA eT URMAPhA FonT œUvRe UTIle Source of original article: Université d’Abomey-Calavi (UAC) / University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin...

The Kind of Revolution That Martin Luther King Jr. Envisioned

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). His last Sunday sermon reminds us about the perils of not being woke. By Esau McCaulley, NYT — In 1968, four days before...

Brother Martin Was a Blues Man

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). A Boston Review Book Talk with Cornel West. Editor’s Note: In February 2018, the Cambridge Public Library hosted a conversation between Harvard University...

VALORISATION ÉCONOMIQUE DES RÉSULTATS DE RECHERCHE ET DE L’INNOVATION

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). UNE TRENTAINE DE CHERCHEURS AGUERRIS   Source of original article: Université d’Abomey-Calavi (UAC) / University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Republic,...

MLK Day Special Edition of Vantage Point

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Jan 16, 2023 MLK Day Edition of Vantage Point The Professor Dr. Ron Daniels is joined by Rev. Dr. Major Jemison, President...

Flood Fund for Third World Press Foundation

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Dear Friends, Last year marked our 55th anniversary in the publishing business. We are very proud to have built the oldest, independent,...

Rightwing group pours millions in ‘dark money’ into US voter suppression bid

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Tax filings reveal advocacy arm of Heritage Foundation spent $5m on lobbying in 2021 to block voting rights in battleground states. By...

Tumultuous year for reparations board

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By High Point Enterprise — Supporters of slavery reparations for Black High Point residents were celebrating when the city took a step...

Baltimore pastor to walk to Washington to garner support for HR-40 in honor of...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Baltimore, MD – Rev. Dr. Robert Turner, Senior Pastor of Baltimore’s Empowerment Temple and former Pastor of the historic Vernon AME...

Ancestral Insights From Our Ancient Sacred Texts

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Dr. Maulana Karenga — One of the most critical tasks of our times is to reaffirm, deepen and expand our culture of...

Small rebellions

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Anti-blackness is on the rise in Ayiti. But Haitians and Dominicans are resisting, in ways big and small. By Saudi Garcia, Africa...

Add it up! Taking bold action in the reparations fight for Black people

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Toure Muhammad, Final Call News — EVANSTON, Ill.—It’s true. Some Black residents of Evanston, an affluent small college town just north...

Jewish group moves to support reparations for Black Americans

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Isheka N. Harrison, TMN — A Jewish group has taken a step toward supporting reparations for Black Americans. Reconstructing Judaism recently voted to approve a resolution to...

76 JA, Asian American organizations call for presidential commission on Black reparations

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Article Source: The Rafu Shimpo. On Dec. 21, the National Nikkei Reparations Coalition (NNRC) and 76 supporting organizations submitted a letter calling...