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U.S. Black Chambers: Celebrating 15 Years Of Empowering Black Businesses

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. (USBC) Photos: U.S. Black ChambersYouTube Screenshots Welcome 2024! As we joyfully commemorate the 15th anniversary of U.S. Black...

CPR: NYPD Abuse Spiked In 2023–As Mayor Adams Gives More Money To NYPD

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com).  By Communities United for Police Reform Photos: YouTube Screenshots The Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) found that police misconduct cases jumped 51% in...

‘It is still dangerous to be a journalist’: Daphne Caruana Galizia’s son reflects on...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Paul Caruana Galizia had just sat down for an...

Hunger Free America Organization To Honor Dr. King With MLK Events In NYC

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Facebook Hunger Free America, a nationwide direct service and advocacy nonprofit organization headquartered in New York City, has organized a weekend...

U.S. Senate Candidate Lawrence Hamm Will Speak In Jersey City On Saturday Jan. 13

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Facebook A town hall meeting with U.S. Senate candidate Lawrence Hamm will be held Saturday, January 13, 2024, 2:00pm at All...

“Exploitation And Instability In Nigeria” Book Examines The 1990 Orkar Coup Attempt In Nigeria

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). “Exploitation and Instability in Nigeria: The Orkar Coup in Perspective” is a book written by Sowaribi Tolofari. The book is a treatise...

Congresswomen Bush, Tlaib “Unequivocally” Support South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel At ICJ

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots Washington D.C. (Jan. 11, 2024) — Congresswoman Cori Bush (MO-01) and Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) released the following joint...

“Ghosts Of A Lost Cause” Documentary Screening Jan. 15 To Commemorate MLK Day”

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By SPLC Photos: “Ghosts of a Lost Cause”Wikimedia Commons MURRAY, Ky. — On Monday, January 15, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. Murray State University...

Soccer: Hartford Athletic Signs Jamaican Defender For 2024 USL Championship Season

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: XYouTube ScreenshotWikimedia Commons News Americas, HARTFORD, CT, Mon. Jan. 8, 2023: Hartford Athletic has officially announced the signing of Jamaican Reggae...

Nigerian Soldiers Arrested After Torture Video Goes Viral

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: Wikimedia Commons The Nigerian army has arrested two soldiers following the circulation of a viral video depicting them allegedly torturing a...

CPJ: Were Killed Gaza Journalists Targeted By Netanyahu’s Government?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Committee To Protect Journalists Photos: YouTube Screenshots CPJ calls for an investigation into the killings on Sunday of journalists Hamza Al Dahdouh—who was...

Guyana Rejects Quest For US Military Base Amid Territorial Dispute With Venezuela

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots Guyana’s Attorney General Anil Nandlall said Thursday that Guyana’s government has reassured neighboring Venezuela there is no plan for...

We Must Break The Cycle Of War And Transcend The War Mindset

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Robert C. Koehler Photos: YouTube Screenshots “I am begging the world: stop all the wars, stop killing people, stop killing babies. War...

Student Loan Debt Common Across All Race, Gender Groups–Especially Black Women

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By CEPR Photos: YouTube Screenshots Forty-three million Americans currently have student loan debt. This group of borrowers collectively owes $1.766 trillion, which...

“Genocide In The Making”: International Court Of Justice Hearing Is Step Toward Helping Palestinians

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Amnesty International Photos: YouTube Screenshots The International Court of Justice (ICJ) proceedings on a South Africa legal case alleging that the...

Nuevo Informe de Organizaciones Líderes en Investigación y de la Sociedad Civil Revela Nueva...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). San Salvador y Washington, D.C. – El 11 de enero, la Alianza Centroamericana frente a la Minería (ACAFREMIN), el Institute for...

Film On Homeless Black Man Comes To Black Public Media’s “AfroPoP Digital Shorts” Series

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Tracii McGregorClaudia BrownWikimedia Commons Black Public Media’s AfroPoP Digital Shorts series continues on MLK Day on Monday with the story of...

New Report from Leading Research and Civil Society Organizations Reveals New Information on the...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). San Salvador and Washington, D.C. –  On January 11, the Central American Alliance on Mining (ACAFREMIN), the Institute for Policy Studies,...

National Museum Of African American History And Culture Celebrates Black History Month

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots Smithsonian The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) commemorates Black History Month with wide-reaching programs that...

REPORT: El Salvador’s State of Deception

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Introduction A year ago this January, five water defenders were arrested in El Salvador. The “Santa Marta Five” led a successful national campaign...

OECS: Recycle Project Generates Insights Into Plastic Waste Landscape Of Dominica And Grenada

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube ScreenshotsOECS January 10, 2023  — New Waste Characterization Reports are in for Dominica and Grenada. The findings are critical for...

Bodycam Footage Shows Shocking Moment Police Shoot An 11-Year-Old At His Home

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots Newly released body camera footage shows the moment when an Indianola, Mississippi, police officer shot and injured unarmed 11-year-old...

Despite U.S. Supreme Court Ruling House Speaker Mike Johnson Stands By Election Denialism

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Michael WaldmanBrennan Center Photos: YouTube Screenshots In an interview over the weekend, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson again insisted that he’s...

The Current Murders, Killings, In Dictator Museveni’s Uganda Indicate Fascism Of Ruling Regime

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Zacharia Kanyonyozi Photos: YouTube Screenshots Legislators sitting on the Defence and Internal Affairs committee of Uganda’s Parliament have embarked, once more, on...