News from the diaspora
RSS FeedGlobal: Discussions on the 'The Warmth of Other Suns'
2012-02-06, Issue 568
This February, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), in partnership with the Applied Research Center’s Drop the I-Word campaign against the pejorative 'illegals', will be hosting an online nationwide book discussion about the critically acc...
Iran: 10 reasons not to go to war
2012-01-26, Issue 567
There is no threat, sanctions lead to war and war leads to welfare cuts: These are three of the 10 reasons advanced by the website www.counterfire.org/ against possible war against Iran by Western powers....
United States: White house announces Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg as a change champion
2012-01-30, Issue 567
The White House has chosen to honour Akili Dada founder and executive director, Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg, as one of fourteen Champions of Change who are leaders in American Diaspora communities with roots in the Horn of Africa. These leaders are h...
Global: How the State Department uses rap to spread propaganda abroad
2012-01-11, Issue 565
Since 2005, the US State Department has been using hip-hop as a bridge for foreign cultural diplomacy. Operating under the auspices of then-public diplomacy undersecretary Karen Hughes, the 'Rhythm Road' program began sending 'hip-hop envoys' to, mos...
Haiti: Two years on and Haitians still bear the brunt of slow aid
2012-01-12, Issue 565
Two years after Haiti was devastated by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, international aid donors have delivered only half of the billions of dollars promised for reconstruction, according to UN data. Just $2.38-billion (53 per cent) of the $4.5-billion p...
United States: Occupy protests close US ports
2011-12-13, Issue 563
US 'occupy' protesters claimed victory Monday 12 December in blockading ports along the West Coast and shutting down a major trade cargo hub in a new front on the anti-capitalist campaign. At least one port was fully closed down, while freight traffi...
United States: I was arrested at Occupy Bronx - for writing about it
2011-12-19, Issue 563

Journalist Carla Murphy had planned to cover a small protest in the Bronx and then head to brunch - but she went to jail instead. 'As officers encircled me, I kept my shoulders down and tried to moderate my tone. That sixth sense had nothing to do w...
United States: Mumia speaks about his removal from death row
2011-12-19, Issue 563
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been moved out of administrative custody and transferred to disciplinary custody at SCI Mahanoy after news that the prosecutor would no longer seek the death penalty. Meanwhile, hundreds of supporters gathered in Philadelphia to m...
Haiti: The 'dream house' nightmare
2011-12-20, Issue 563
While over one million refugees suffered under tents following the 12 January 2010, earthquake, 128 newly constructed homes, finished in May 2010, sat empty for 15 months. Today, the majority of these 'social housing' units are occupied, but mostly b...
United States: Extreme poverty at record levels in US
2011-11-10, Issue 557
According to the US Census Bureau, a higher percentage of Americans is living in extreme poverty than they have ever measured before. In 2010, we were told that the economy was recovering, but the truth is that the number of the 'very poor' soared to...
US: Cynthia McKinney offered protection after assassination threat
2011-11-14, Issue 557
2008 US Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney was offered 'victim witness' special protection by the FBI after the indictment of four men in northern Georgia for plotting to kill McKinney, Attorney General Eric Holder, and, according to...
US: Occupy Wall Street: emotions run high after Oakland protests
2011-11-07, Issue 556
Emotions ran high as Occupy Wall Street supporters and public officials dealt with the aftermath of protests that shut down the nation's fifth-busiest port before spiraling into chaos near the movement's downtown encampment. The movement challenging ...
US Supreme Court confirms ruling lifting Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death penalty
2011-10-23, Issue 553
'For years since the dramatic 2001 decision by Federal District Judge William Yohn overturning Abu-Jamal’s death sentence on grounds that the trial judge’s instructions to the jury had been faulty and that the jury verdict form was dangerously mislea...
Global: Africa and diaspora studies
2011-10-24, Issue 553
DePaul’s Program in African and Black Diaspora Studies provides its students with a systematic, interdisciplinary, and integrated course of study of Africa and the Black Diaspora. Students will have an opportunity to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in...
Kenya: Obama snubs Kenya's diaspora conference
2011-10-11, Issue 552
More than 500 US residents with a blood connection to Kenya gathered in Washington recently in the first conference focused on the diaspora's relationship with the homeland. One particularly prominent figure was absent however: President Barack Obama...
South Africa: ANCYL says US has 'no respect for humanity'
2011-10-13, Issue 552
The United States's incarceration of the 'Cuban Five' proves that it has no respect for humanity and justice, the ANC Youth League said. In a statement supporting the release of the Cuban Five, the league criticised the US government for its approach...
Haiti: Is Munustah keeping the peace, or conspiring against it?
2011-10-10, Issue 551
In the year and a half since the earthquake in Haiti, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH by its French acronym) has expanded its role in the name of security, stability, and relief. However, since its establishment in 2004, m...
Call for the immediate withdrawal of MINUSTAH troops from Haiti
Letter to Ban Ki-Moon
2011-09-26, Issue 549
'It is surprising and humiliating to certify that "Haiti is a threat to world peace and security", as the UN Security Council does, year after year, in order to ratify the presence there of a military-police mission said to be for the purposes of st...
After Troy Davis's death, questions I can't unask
2011-09-26, Issue 549
Dave Zirin, writing in The Nation, asks a series of questions about the US execution. 'Can Troy Davis, who fought to his last breath, actually be dead this morning? If we felt tortured with fear and hope for the four hours that the Supreme Court deli...
Africa: For expat Africans, patriotism may pay
2011-09-15, Issue 547
Remittances from Africans abroad are booming, growing fourfold in the past 20 years and shrugging off the global financial crisis, to total $40 billion a year. 'Tapping into this money with so-called diaspora bonds could help provide Africa with the ...
Africa: Diaspora women using fashion for change
2011-09-16, Issue 547
Sheila Ruiz, programming and communications consultant for the Africa Centre in London's Covent Garden, put together a list of 7 African diaspora women in London who are using fashion for progressive change....
Africa: The Revival of Panafricanism Forum
2011-08-08, Issue 543
The 7th conference of 'The Revival of Panafricanism Forum' was held on Saturday, 16 July 2011. The topic of the conference was 'Panafricanism: A Viable Ideology to Address Africa’s Rape Redux/Euro-American 21st Century Neo-Colonial Re-Conquest and Scramble for Africa.' The speakers were Dr. Molefi Kete Asante (keynote), Peter Bailey, Maurice Carney, and Chioma Oruh. Videos of the conference are posted on Youtube:...
Haiti: The Aristide Files
2011-08-08, Issue 543
US officials led a far-reaching international campaign aimed at keeping former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide exiled in South Africa, rendering him a virtual prisoner there for the last seven years, according to secret US State Department c...
Global: Petition to free the Cuban 5
2011-07-25, Issue 540
The Cuban Five are five Cuban men who are in US prisons serving two life sentences and 96 years, collectively, after being wrongly convicted in the US federal district court in Miami on 8 June 200l. The open letter - available at the link provided - ...
Cameroon: Cameroon gives franchise to diaspora
2011-07-12, Issue 539
A Bill that gives Cameroonians in the diaspora the vote has been passed into law. The Bill sailed through during an extraordinary session of the National Assembly. Opposition groups and civil society organisations have, however, termed the new law a ...
Haiti: The shelters that Clinton built
2011-07-18, Issue 539
When Demosthene Lubert heard that Bill Clinton's foundation was going to rebuild his collapsed school at the epicenter of Haiti's January 12, 2010, earthquake, in the coastal city of Léogâne, the academic director thought he was 'in paradise'. The pr...
International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5
Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up, Tuesday 26 July, Los Angeles, CA, Screening and Release to the Public
2011-07-18, Issue 539
'Will the real terrorist please stand up' shows that US-backed violence against Cuba continued for decades. Some Bay of Pigs participants and the most well-known terrorists appear on camera to boast or re-evaluate their activities over the years. Orl...
Cameroon: House debates diaspora vote
2011-07-07, Issue 538
The Cameroon Government has tabled a Bill in the National Assembly that could grant the vote to the diaspora. The Bill is almost sure to be passed as it is supported by both the ruling CPDM party, which has a two-third majority in the Assembly as wel...
Haiti: Violence, anger grow in Haiti's quake camps
2011-06-30, Issue 537
Haitian President Michel Martelly, who came to power in mid-May, must urgently rehouse homeless quake survivors still living in camps nearly a year and a half after the disaster, and meet the basic needs of those who remain in urban slums, says a new...
Haiti: Peasants march for a 'real agricultural policy'
2011-07-04, Issue 537
Thousands of Haitian peasants marched in the city of Hinche in the Central Plateau region on 21 June to demand that the government promote food sovereignty, the restoration of the environment and the development of an agriculture 'adapted to the real...
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