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    Trump Hosts African Leaders After Past Insults and Controversial Claims

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By April RyanBlackPressUSA Washington Bureau Chief and White House Correspondent President Trump will meet with African leaders at the White House on...

    UN appoints new envoy to Haiti amid calls for a more aggressive international response

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Carlos Ruiz Massieu succeeds María Isabel Salvador as special representative of the UN Secretary-General amidst Haiti’s fragile political transition, escalating gang...

    Relentlessly Resisting Genocide, Injustice and Oppression Everywhere

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As Trump and Netanyahu huddle together in their twin blood-soaked cocoons and caves of hubris and holocaust...

    The Big Ugly Boondogle Cripples Our Future — by Dr. Julianne Malveaux

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — The big ugly boondoggle, which our President calls The Big Beautiful Bill, is a disgusting transfer of...

    How Sahel coups revealed ECOWAS flaws

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The 2024 crisis exposed structural faults at the core of the West African regional body. At 50, can the once-great institution...

    Meeting the Demands of This Decisive Moment

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As we move and make our way through the troubled, treacherous and trap-laden waters of our time,...

    Deals Over Diplomacy, Minerals Over Manners

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). For some. the move by President Trump is ambitious and bold- and for others, it has a strong tinge of controversy...

    Daring to Oppose War and Practice Peace

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this critical moment of warmongering and warmaking and the awesome waste of lives and of needed...

    Fighting Climate Meltdown and the Death Cult — by Ted Glick

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ted Glick – “This is a fight for life. And like all fights, you need a tremendous amount of bravery to...

    The Real Truth Behind Ethiopia’s Current State

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Video Source: TechiLysta — Ethiopia looks stable on the surface, glittering skylines, shiny museums, and televised progress. But behind the facade...

    Nigerian President Tinubu’s pardon of ‘Ogoni Nine’ draws ethnic group’s rejection

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ope Adetayo, Reuters — Nigeria’s Ogoni activists on Friday rejected a posthumous pardon for nine members executed three decades ago by...

    We Need the Joy of Black Music Month — by Dr. Julianne Malveaux

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Dyana Williams, Kenny Gamble and Ed Wright founded Black Music Month in June 1979. Also known as...

    American Democracy is at a Pivotal Moment and None of Us Should be Silent

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous —  None of us should be silent about the recent use of federal agents by this administration to bully,...

    IOM and OIC Sign Landmark Plan of Action to Strengthen Cooperation on Migration Governance

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Istanbul, Türkiye, 21 June 2025 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have signed a...

    IOM Sounds Alarm Over Suspension of Life-Saving Transport in South Sudan

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Geneva/Juba, 20 June 2025 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is deeply alarmed by the suspension of its life-saving transport services...

    The “Liberation” of California? — The MAGA dictator has moved us closer to a...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Trump administration’s big lie is that only the most vicious and violent of those in the country without proper documentation...

    Defending Black Immigrants, Others and Ourselves

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In the midst of our community conversations and participation in the urgent and ever-widening resistance to the...

    Again, Remembering and Honoring Our Father: His Spirit, Mind, Speech and Specialness

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Here, as Father’s Day approaches, I am retrieving one of the many portraits of our father...

    What Would We Do Without Immigrants? — by Dr. Julianne Malveaux

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Douglas Turner Ward (1930-2021) wrote a searing play, Days of Absence that depicted the way life might...

    Culturally Responsive Education for Black Youth — Remembering Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Brenda M. Greene —  Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu, national educational consultant, publisher, and the author of over 30 books that address...

    Juneteenth should be an impetus to heal from legacies of enslavement

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). (Black PR Wire) In anticipation of this year’s observance of Juneteenth, the Global Circle for Reparations and Healing today released a...

    IOM Reports 60 Migrants Missing in Two Deadly Shipwrecks off Libya

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Cairo/Tripoli, 17 June 2025 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is deeply saddened by two confirmed shipwrecks off the coast...

    USA for IOM Appoints New CEO to Lead Next Chapter of Humanitarian Innovation

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Geneva/Washington, D.C., 17 June 2025 – USA for IOM, the U.S. nonprofit partner of the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration...

    Migrants and Diaspora Drive Development Through Remittance Flows

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Geneva, 16 June 2025 – Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, conflict, and rising inequality, one financial flow has remained remarkably...