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Insurrection Act Threat: The Danger Of Another Trump Presidency

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube ScreenshotsWikimedia Commons Donald Trump has made clear that, in a second term, he would govern differently than any president in...

Patients and advocates still fighting for safer medical devices five years after Implant Files

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Five years after the Implant Files investigation by the...

Lehman College, Community Chorus To Present Annual Free Winter Concert On December 10

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Wikimedia CommonsYouTube ScreenshotLehman College The Bronx, NY—The Lehman College and Community Chorus presents its annual, free Winter Concert on Sunday, December...

Police Corruption And Misconduct: Black Man Exonerated In New York City After 25-Year Wrongful...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Elijah Craig II/Innocence Project/YouTube Screenshots Monday, after more than 25 years of wrongful conviction and incarceration, Jabar Walker was finally exonerated...

Mount Sinai Creates Research Center To Focus On Opioids, Emerging Substances, And Drug Overdose

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots (New York, NY – November 28, 2023) – The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai announced today the...

Ugandan, Tanzanian Faith Leaders Call for Immediate End To Oil Pipeline Construction

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots The international, multi-faith climate justice organization GreenFaith released a report showing that TotalEnergies, the French fossil fuel giant, has...

People’s Organization For Progress: Pause Not Enough, We Need A Ceasefire In Gaza

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Facebook “We believe the current pause in the fighting is a positive development in that it has brought about the release...

Newest Attack On Voting Rights Act Must Be Reversed

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: ACLUYouTube Screenshots It was only a matter of time before a new threat to the Voting Rights Act appeared on the...

Black-Owned Brand Creates Travel Gear Celebrating Kids Of Color

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: BlackBusiness.comDutchess and Duke Over half of all children in the United States are children of color. That’s why Dutchess and Duke,...

Soccer: Can Nigeria Improve After Poor Start In 2026 World Cup Qualifiers?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Wikimedia Commons Nigeria have faced harsh criticism from fans and pundits alike after lackluster performances in their first two qualifiers for...

Why Are Ugandans So Interested In The Macabre Murder Of Wealthy Businessman Henry Katanga?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Zacharia Kanyonyozi  Photos: YouTube Screenshots The Ugandan public is watching the case where a wife, Molly Katanga, (above right) allegedly killed her...

‘I’ll be killed if they find me’: Radio reporter Maxo Dorvil flees Haiti amid...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Haitian radio journalist Maxo Dorvil fled the country on November 7, 2023, after reporting that he was shot at twice in...

“We Must Love One Another, Or Die”: Only Righteous Right, Not Military Might, Can...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Jonathan Klate Photos: YouTube ScreenshotsWikimedia Commons I am a Jew. My father and all of my grandparents emigrated from the pale of settlement...

Pioneering Nigerian Founder Of Black Ethnic Satellite Television Station Wins Two Global Awards

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: Facebook A milestone weekend marked a dual celebration of remarkable achievements as Alistair Soyode, of BEN Television, a venerated figure in...

“Hunger Is A Political Choice” Study: US Hunger Soaring Due To Federal Aid Cuts

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube The number of Americans without enough food over a seven-day period was an average of 40% higher in September and...

Israelis And Palestinians: An Imagined Dialogue On Genocide In Gaza

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Russell Vandenbroucke Photos: YouTube Screenshots Man’s inhumanity to man,Makes countless thousands mourn. –Robert Burns Israelis And Palestinians: An Imagined Dialogue On Genocide In Gaza 1.        “As...

Death Falls…From A Dark Bloody Sky: A Poem For Palestinians

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ras Memnon Photos: YouTube “The Military and the Monetary,get together whenever they think its necessary,They turn our brothers and sisters into mercenaries,...

Ugandans Must Remember They Are Fighting The Museveni Regime–Not The Banyankore

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Zacharia Kanyonyozi Photos: YouTube Screenshots There are gaffes, there are the faux pas and then are the woefully worded speeches of Gen....

The Roadmap to High-Quality Monitoring and Evaluation at MCC

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). The four steps to achieving high-quality monitoring and evaluation. MCC is excited to announce major changes to the MCC Monitoring...

Abstract Samba: Carnival Drum Queens And The White Supremacist Usurpation Of Afro-Brazilian Culture

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Paulo Mileno Photo: Rafael Cusato / EGO The theme of the plot will be the divided city On the day when chaos reigns...

MANAHATTA Play Now Showing At The Public Theater Thru Dec. 23rd

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube ScreenshotMANAHATTA  A gripping journey from the fur trade of the 1600s to the stock trade of today, Mary Kathryn Nagle’s MANAHATTA tells...

Human Rights Watch: Hamas Must Free Hostages. Israel Must Allow Aid Into Gaza

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots (Jerusalem) – Israeli authorities and Hamas have reportedly agreed to a multiple-day ceasefire and the release of dozens of...

Thanksgiving, Native American Genocide, And The War Against Palestinians

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots Much as I love Thanksgiving — seeing my family . . . oh the turkey, oh the cranberry sauce...

Lawmakers call for EU crackdown after ICIJ’s Cyprus Confidential revelations

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). European Union lawmakers have criticized Cyprus for its lax...