African Diaspora Leaders

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.

Rebuilding Altadena, CA After Wildfires

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). January 27, 2025 Edition of Vantage Point: Rebuilding Altadena, CA After Wildfires | Black History & Culture. Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Author, Political...

Thousands survived a brutal gang attack in Haiti that killed 70. Now they face...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Pierre-Richard Luxama and Dánica Coto, AP — Under the cover of night, dozens of gang members crept toward the small town...

Majority of Britons support permanent British Museum exhibit on transatlantic slave trade

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Karen K. Ho, ARTNews — A recent poll found the majority of Britons, 53 percent, support a permanent exhibit at the British...

Unforgivable Blackness of Liberation, Resistance and Radical Refusal

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The most recent fabricated, false and fear-mongering ranting by Trump, Vance and various other MAGA advocates and...

The Bishop Who Stood Up to Trump

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Vantage Point VignetteComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels In the spirit of resistance and transformation which I have been repeatedly advocating,...

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

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). November 25, 2024 Edition of Vantage Point The Professor, Dr. Ron Daniels reports back from IBW’s town hall meeting on the 2024...

The Government Against the People — By Dr. Julianne Malveaux

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — I can’t remember when I met Dr. Olivia Hooker, a Tulsa Massacre survivor, the first African American...

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...

Contribute to the HSP Haiti Crisis Fund

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Yes, I want to help the Haiti Support Project in its efforts to assist Haiti to resolve the current crisis and...

Urges Biden to Enact HR-40 Commission by Executive Order

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). As a follow-up to the post-presidential election National/International Town Hall Meeting convened by the Institute of the Black World 21st Century...

That day Eartha Kitt shut down the White House luncheon — By David Love

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). When the President asks you a question, either say what people want to hear or you speak the truth. By David Love,...

Reparation Information Thought Series – Reparations Rising: California’s Next Steps

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Monday, September 23, 2024, 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT — Join us for Reparations Rising: California’s Next Steps to...

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...

Fears of racial profiling swirl as Haitians and other immigrants face new US registration...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Advocates say Trump-era mandate to carry immigration papers revives “show me your papers” era, heightening fear among Haitian and Black immigrant...

Mary Ellen Pleasant, the Haitian-descended entrepreneur and abolitionist who built a fortune in 19th-century...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Overview: Originally published on Feb. 3, 2019 in The Haitian Times, this article explores the life of Mary Ellen Pleasant, a...

75 years after Dumarsais Estimé’s fall, what Haiti can still learn from his vision

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). As the nation unravels today, the legacy of Haiti’s progressive president Estimé echoes louder than ever By Stéphane Pierre-Paul — It would be...

Indigenous Communities Continue to Lead in Some of Our Most Crucial Environmental Fights

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous — Contamination from lead, arsenic, and the other toxins in Tar Creek in northeastern Oklahoma stole the potential of many children...

Chicago Inspector General asks state regulators to ban some CPD officers from law enforcement

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmnpdR6nouY Source: ABC 7 Chicago As the I-Team reported, at least a dozen CPD officers have been linked to the Proud Boys, Oath...

Former U.S. Congressman Charles B. Rangel, dies at 94

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Charles Bernard Rangel, the former congressman from Harlem, and the last remaining founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, has died at...

Racism or Politics? “They’re Eating Cats and Dogs”

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). You Are Here: Home » Blog » Commentaries/Opinions » Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Racism or Politics? “They’re Eating Cats and Dogs” About Earl...

Culture as the Key Crisis in Black Life with Dr. Maulana Karenga

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). January 6, 2025 Edition of Vantage Point The Professor, Dr. Ron Daniels is joined by special guest Dr. Maulana Karenga, Creator of...

Kim Poole’s Tribute to Malcolm’ Mother + Where, Oh Where, Is Bev Smith?

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). March 31, 2025Women’s History Month Edition of Vantage Point The Professor, Dr. Ron Daniels, is joined by special guests Kim Poole, Founder...

Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). “…Perry reevaluates what it means for Black Americans to be empowered in this smart and revelatory study….one of the most riveting...

Its Ongoing Struggle for Life and Liberation, Pt. 2

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 2. It is important to note that the legacy and lessons we speak of here are not...