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Unlocking Knowledge with Open Data

Photo Credit: Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). Urtina Zeka Urtina Zeka, Economist at the Compact Development Team Kosovo, presenting about the use of data to strengthen the...

U.S. House Passes 45-Day Funding Bill To Temporarily Avoid Government Shutdown

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) issued the following statement regarding his vote in favor of a short–term government...

REPORT: Hanscom High Flyers – Institute for Policy Studies

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Hanscom Field’s “High Flyers” — the top 20 private jet travelers using Hanscom Field — are profiled in full in the...

The Fearmongering Divisive Rhetoric Regarding New York City’s Migrant Influx Is Solving Nothing

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photos: YouTube Screenshots When New York City Mayor Eric Adams proclaimed that arriving migrants would “destroy” the city, my heart sank. Here...

New Report Does A Deep Dive ​Into the High-Flying Excesses at Hanscom and Costs...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). REPORT URL: https://ips-dc.org/report-hanscom-high-flyers Boston, MA – A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) documents that Hanscom Field, New England’s...

Documentary ‘Bill Russell: Legend’ To Be Released Feb. 8

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: Netflix Studio Asset Share The remarkable life and legacy of an NBA superstar and civil rights icon is captured in the...

Columbia University Names Nemat Shafik New President

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: Wikipedia Commons Nemat “Minouche” Shafik, a leading economist whose career has focused on public policy and academia, will become the 20th...

Shaggy, Sting, To Headline Saint Lucia Jazz & Arts Festival

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: Saint Lucia Jazz & Arts Festival CASTRIES, SAINT LUCIA (January 25, 2023) - Renowned as the biggest and best music event...

More than a dozen journalists harassed, attacked during week of anti-government protests in Peru

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Bogotá, January 24, 2023 – More than a dozen journalists have been harassed, attacked, or injured amid protests in the Peruvian...

Senators Failed to Add Anti-Immigrant Border Policy to Budget Deal

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Yesterday, two anti-immigrant amendments that would have extended the legacy of the draconian Trump-era immigration policy, Title 42, each took the...

Sharpton: Firing Black Cops Who Killed Tyre Nichols “Not Enough”

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: YouTube New York, NY (Tuesday, January 24, 2023) – Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN),...

Swifties, Welcome to the Anti-Monopoly Movement

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The anti-monopoly movement is having a moment. Gone are the days of associating evil market dominance with Standard Oil or Carnegie...

How a global data dive uncovered hundreds of honorary consuls linked to crimes or...

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Honorary consuls are part-time volunteer diplomats, representing the interests...

Helping Students Sort Fact from Fiction

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). I was delighted to learn that New Jersey has become the first state in the country to require public schools to teach...

A Big Year for the Charity Reform Movement

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The numbers are in: Philanthropy is top-heavier than ever…In March, we published “Top Heavy Philanthropy Explained In 8 Charts,” illustrating how concentration...

Inside Southwest’s Horrific Holidays – Institute for Policy Studies

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). For America’s rich and powerful, the new year is beginning in a most inauspicious fashion. Millions of Americans are once again...

Tyre Nichols: 5 Black Memphis Cops Arrested In Brutal Beating Death

Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Photo: Memphis Police Department Five Memphis officers have been charged in the brutal beating death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, who died on...