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News that highlights the lives, visions, achievements, policies, and strategies of exceptional contemporary African Diaspora leaders across the globe in order to motivate, challenge, and encourage current and future generations of people of African descent to take initiative and offers guidance to those interested in Africa’s development.

13th Annual Month of Non-Violence, Families, Voters Rights and Opportunities Goes Global

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). For 13 years, Black Women for Positive Change (BWFPC) a multi-cultural, intergenerational, inter-faith organization of Women and Good Brothers, has sponsored...

Trump 2.0 and the implications for the Caribbean and the Americas — By Dr....

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Michael Witter — Even more urgently than in previous USA presidential elections, the Caribbean needs to anticipate the kinds of...

It’s time to ‘Gird our Loins’ Here comes Trump 2.0 — By Don Rojas

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Don Rojas — One week after America and the world was stunned by the outcome of the national elections on November 5th, 2024, we find ourselves...

Report Back from IBW’s Town Hall Meeting on Presidential Election 2024

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). November 18, 2024 Edition of Vantage Point The Professor, Dr. Ron Daniels reports back from IBW’s town hall meeting on the 2024...

A Milestone Moment for My Son and Me A Personal Political Note

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Vantage Point VignetteComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels Today is November 16, two days after the Institute of the Black World...

Black Leaders to Assess Impact of a “Disastrous” Election

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). November 14, 2024 town hall meeting will discuss the way forward for Black America Dr. Ron Daniels, President of the New York...

Vantage Point: The Presidential Election

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). November 11, 2024 Edition of Vantage Point The Professor, Dr. Ron Daniels is joined by special guest Bill Fletcher, Author, Commentator, Veteran...

Why Are We Here? A Dispatch from the Nadir

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Sherrilyn Ifill — It wasn’t the Electoral College. It wasn’t gerrymandering, or even voter suppression. America was undone this week by...

Continue the Struggle, Keep the Faith and Hold the Line

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — By the time this column is read, there will be evidence of a winner of this presidential...

The Yard Brings Together Alumni, Students And Supporters For Kamala Harris

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Yard—Howard’s cultural center—hosts Harris and a community united by legacy, leadership and resilience. By Rachel Bunch, Essence — The Yard, the heart...

Harris Lost After Democrats “Abandoned Working Class People”

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). “The American people are angry and want change. And they’re right,” Sanders said. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont)...

The Haitians of Springfield, a Trump campaign target, brace for his presidency

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Many in the Ohio community are worried and praying after he won the election. By Danielle Paquette, Washington Post — This was the...

The clock is ticking for the government to do what is right for this...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous — The state of Alabama destroyed their homes. Your federal tax dollars helped pay for it. We are checking back in...

Black male votes matter! – By Rev. Irene Monroe

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Rev. Irene Monroe — The last time I saw a huge gathering of Black men was the Million Man March in...

Why Trump is bad for Africa

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Julius Ogunro, Vanguard — The US presidential election is only a few days away and polls show Vice President Kamala Harris...

Women raped in war-hit Sudan die by suicide, activists say

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ian Wafula, BBC — Warning: This story contains details some may find distressing. Several women have taken their lives in Sudan’s central...

To Vote or Not to Vote and for Who? And Will It Matter?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). November 4, 2024 Edition of Vantage Point An open forum with the Professor, Dr. Ron Daniels. Audience call in at (212) 209-2877....

Holding Trump accountable for a lifetime of anti-Black racism

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Holding Trump accountable for a lifetime of anti-Black racism. By Clarence Lusane, TomDispatch — Donald Trump was the worst president for Black people...

A Historic Closing Argument

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Stacy Brown, Sr. and Greer Marshall — With just one week until the pulse of the nation beats at the ballot...

Concerns for our people, struggle and world

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — No one can miss or mistake the deep and insistent anxiety, apprehension and righteous anger that precede...

Vantage Point: Reflections on the Million Man March

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). October 28, 2024 Edition of Vantage Point An open forum with the Dr. Ron Daniels aka The Professor on the Soapbox. Audience...

Upcoming Event: “The 2024 Presidential Election: Progress or Disaster?”

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). You Are Here: Home » Blog » News & Current Affairs » Events » Upcoming Event: “The 2024 Presidential Election: Progress or...

The State of the Presidential Race

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). October 21, 2024 Edition of Vantage Point On this edition of Vantage Point, host Dr. Ron Daniels aka The Professor is joined...

It’s Not Just the Fascism

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). This column is particularly for those people who live in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona...