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    Temporary channel opens as authorities strive to clear Key Bridge wreckage

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Megan Sayles, AFRO — It is still unclear when the rubble of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the Dali container...

    AIPAC is an Enemy of Humanity — By Julianne Malveaux

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Julianne Malveaux — Let me begin with the obligatory statements. What happened on October 7, 2023, was horrible. Hamas launched an...

    Democratic governors holding the line to protect Black history and books

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). “Those who do not learn their past will never know their power,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore told theGrio. “It’s why we...

    Regular migration programs: IOM Cameroon sets up a monthly monitoring mechanism

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Yaoundé - On 29 April 2024, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) - Cameroon Mission will be able to monitor trends...

    U.K. Prime Minister calls plan for two Black audiences-only shows “divisive”

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Written by actor and playwright Jeremy O. Harris, the London version of the play, which also offered “Black Out” performances on...

    IOM Director General Amy Pope's First 100 Days

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). IOM Director General Amy Pope's First 100 Days mgoloy 08 Jan 2024 Speaker Type ...

    Discovery of Mass Grave with 65 Migrants’ Bodies in Libya

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Geneva, 22 March - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is profoundly shocked and alarmed by the discovery of at least...

    Service, culture and continued collaboration celebrated during Commonwealth Day 2024

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). In London, Commonwealth Day began with a flag-raising at the House of Commons. It was...
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    Highway Robbery in Alabama

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous — Imagine the neighborhood your family has lived in for more than 150 years being turned into a deteriorating...
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    An Easter Monday Prayer to Resurrect Haiti — Dr. Ron Daniels

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Easter Monday, April 1, 2024 — An urgent call for friends of Haiti to pray for a resolution for the horrific...

    Referring to Barbecue as a revolutionary is an insult

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Referring to Barbecue as a revolutionary is an insult to progressives especially those of us who are Haitians. By Jessie C. Legros...

    The March Against Displacement in Harlem and Palestine!

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Herb Boyd — First I heard the drumming, then the chants of “Viva, Viva Palestina!” from a long line of protesters...

    Commonwealth Secretariat and Khalili Foundation launch youth-led peace ambassadors initiative

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC, the...

    Israeli peace activists are more anguished than ever − in a movement that has...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Secular Jewish groups have historically made up the majority of solidarity and peace groups. But Palestinian citizens and observant Jews are...

    He led Brazil’s Black sailors in mutiny to resist abuse. A hundred years later...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). João Cândido and other navy sailors radicalised in England held Rio de Janeiro hostage in a revolt over corporal punishment. By Tiago...

    San Francisco apologizes to Black residents for decades of racist policies

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Janie Har, AP — Supervisors in San Francisco formally apologized Tuesday to African Americans and their descendants for the city’s role...

    The Commonwealth at COP28 | Commonwealth

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). A voice for all the Commonwealth The Commonwealth Secretary-General, the Rt Hon Patricia Scotland...

    Reclaiming “Tree Hugger” — By Ben Jealous

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Most people think of “tree hugger” as a casual insult for a certain kind of environmentalist. The term actually has a...

    Reparation mechanisms and a development framework

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Sir Hilary McD. Beckles — It took all of the nineteenth century, beginning with the Haitian Declaration of Independence in 1804...

    Resisting the progressive artificiality of human life

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — It is a wide-spread shared conception that our future is under surveillance and siege, that our present...

    Rev. Dr. Freddie Haynes Resigns from New Presidency of Rainbow/PUSH Coalition

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Renowned Pastor Just officially assumed the reins from Rev. Jesse Jackson in February. By Trice Edney News Wire — Less than a year...
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    Haiti on Fire, Part II: A Message for Barbeque: Be Like Malcolm

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Vantage Point VignettesComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels Haiti is on fire now in large part because of the terrorism being...

    IOM Director General’s Statement to the 114th Session of the IOM Council

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Excellencies, members of our Council, honoured guests, IOM colleagues and friends. Today is the fifty-seventh day...

    IOM Calls for Increased Support for Growing Number of Stranded Migrants in Yemen

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Geneva / Ma’rib, 06 May – Amidst the ongoing regional conflicts and socio-economic instability, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) underscores...