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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...

Fewer than one in 10 Somalis to receive life-saving aid in November, warns WFP

 “We are seeing a dangerous rise in emergency levels of hunger, and our ability to respond is shrinking by the day,” said Ross Smith,...

UN warns of ‘catastrophic’ humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s Darfur

All this, while aid convoys remain blocked from reaching hundreds of thousands trapped close to the frontlines and as the military government and their...

¡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...

DOJ’s Threat to Asheville Exposes Hypocrisy in America’s War Against Black Reparations

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Nkechi Taifa, Esq. — The U.S. Department of Justice has fired a dangerous shot across the bow of Asheville, North Carolina,...

Criminalizing Dissent

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Activist and Code Pink (a pro-peace feminist organization) founder Medea Benjamin was simply walking the halls of...

Chicago’s Streets Still Moving to America’s Historic Rhythms

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous —  I started out this year, 2025, in Chicago, honored to give the Martin Luther King Day address at...

Ethiopia’s controversial new dam

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Ethiopia will tomorrow inaugurate Africa’s largest dam, a major source of electricity and national zeal for the country, but one that...

Authoritarian wave in US shows democracy’s fragility, South African scholar says

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The racist upswell in the US looks “clearer from the outside,” says South African philosopher Nuraan Davids. By George Yancy , Truthout...

A Courageous Questioning in These Times

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The arrival of September 7th easily brings to mind and memory for Us the 60th anniversary of...

Dr. Julianne Malveaux at Rep. Al Green’s Slavery Remembrance Breakfast

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Dr. Julianne Malveaux — economist, author, educator, and Commissioner with the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) — delivered remarks at...

Welcome Back, Cowards

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Members of Congress have slithered their way back to Washington, many Democrats continuing to silently cower in the face of injustice,...

Policing in America – Ronald Hampton on History, Reform, and IBW’s Police Justice &...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIzRx-0lQjg Ronald Hampton, Chairman of IBW’s Police Justice and Accountability Task Force, retired veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department, and former executive...

Sudan: Hundreds feared dead in Darfur landslide

Up to 1,000 people are feared dead in the tragedy, which occurred on Sunday in Tarsin village, located in the Jebel Marra range on...

Sudan: A staggering 30 million are in need, as war grinds on

Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy for the humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, briefed journalists on her recent visit to Sudan and neighbouring Chad...

Why the Smithsonian’s story of slavery matters for America’s future

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). In a recent Newsweek opinion column, Kevin Powell draws on personal experience and cultural history to argue that America must tell...