Politics & Governance

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    FirstRepair and BLIS Collective Release Single “Agitate, Educate, Organize” (AEO) to Amplify Black Reparations...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). New single features Young RJ (of Slum Village), Ras Kass, Nkechi Taifa, Kymrence Young, and BLIS Co-founder and Guest Rapper Trevor...

    Deep Meanings and Expansive Message

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — This year and each year, the coming of Kwanzaa causes us to come together in celebration, remembrance,...

    IOM Boosts Migrant Support, Urges Action Amid Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Yemen, 9 December 2024  – In response to Yemen’s escalating humanitarian crisis, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is scaling up...

    New Strategy to Support Stabilization and Integration of Refugees and Migrants in Latin America...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Geneva/ Panama, 6 December 2024 – Over 4.5 million migrants and refugees* from Venezuela have obtained regular status in 17 countries...

    Deadliest Year for Migrants Spurs New UN Recommendations to Protect Lives and Rights

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Geneva, 5 December – A report issued in New York today by the United Nations Secretary-General recommends concrete steps to reduce...

    DEI is Dying: What is Our Response?

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Black Dollars Matter—Let’s Get Ready to Rumble Vantage Point Vignette Comments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels White supremacist-tinged White folks...

    Rising Crime, Perception or Reality?

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). December 2, 2024 Edition of Vantage Point The Professor, Dr. Ron Daniels is joined by special guest New York State Senator James...

    Meditations on Meanings of Resistance and Resilience

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Part II. By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Nana Gwen Brooks was an internationally recognized and respected poet, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize recipient...

    Lest We Forget the Betrayal of Native People

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Vantage Point VignetteComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels Originally Penned on November 28, 2024 On this day, which has come to be...

    IOM Malaysia Hosts Dialogue with Partners to Improve the Implementation of Human Rights Due...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA-As  Malaysia strengthens its role in the global supply chain, with a notable rise in exports, the country faces...

    IOM Innovation Facility Advances Transformative Solutions to Global Migration Challenges

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Geneva – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is launching its first-ever Innovation Facility, a dynamic platform and funding mechanism designed...

    A Day for Shirley Chisholm

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — November 30 is Shirley Chisholm Day in New York, and it’s about time New York the nation,...

    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...

    Modi meets CARICOM leaders

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Bert Wilkinson, Caribbean Life — This is only the second time that an Indian Prime Minister had visited Guyana since Indira...

    IOM Goodwill Ambassadors’ Joint Statement for Peace and Urgent Humanitarian Action

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). ...

    Black Lives Matter Grassroots Statement on the Election of Donald Trump

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). As we face the reality of another term for blatant racist and adjudicated rapist, Donald Trump, it is crucial to remember...

    Finding Balance – Harnessing the Benefits and Addressing Key Challenges of Regular Migration Pathways

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). IOM Director General Amy Pope's Keynote Address at the Second Session of the International Dialogue on Migration 2024 Geneva  – Excellencies, ladies...

    Biden Rushes Urgently Needed Aid to Ukraine, But Why Not Haiti?

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Vantage Point SpecialArticles and Essays by Dr. Ron Daniels In the aftermath of the shocking election of Donald J. Trump to a...

    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...

    IOM Convenes Global Dialogue on Safe Migration Pathways for a Greener Future

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Geneva, 25 November – In a world facing unprecedented levels of forced migration, climate-induced displacement, and deepening economic disparities, the need...

    IOM Supports Sierra Leonean Migrants Stranded by Conflict in Lebanon to Return Home

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Beirut – IOM continues to support the evacuation of migrants stranded by the conflict in Lebanon, assisting 169 Sierra Leonean migrants...

    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...

    Annual Reparations Symposium Will Mark Opening of National Resource Center for State and Local...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Dr. Joy DeGruy, Nationally and Internationally Renowned Researcher and Educator, Author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury...

    Unemployment Among Recently Displaced Ukrainians Reaches 24 Per Cent, IOM Report Shows

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Kyiv/Geneva, 21 November 2024 – As Ukraine marks a thousand days since the start of the full-scale invasion, the International Organization...