(Credit: thedig.howard.edu) Darion K. Akins, a career Foreign Service Officer, is the new DC Metro Diplomat-in Residence at Howard University DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF WASHINGTON – Howard University’s Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center announced the appointment of career Foreign Service Officer Darion K. Akins as its
Molly Catherine Phee, a career diplomat, is President Biden’s U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. (Credit USIP.org) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES President Biden’s top diplomat in Africa Molly Catherine Phee said diversity within the U.S. State Department is “entirely insufficient and
(Photo by Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times) Students “Tent City” set up on campus of Howard University in Washington D.C. to protest “poor” living conditions in dormitories. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – Students at Howard University, the historically-Black institution in Washington,
Vernon Jordan (Courtesy of howard.edu) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – In 1980 civil rights leader Vernon E. Jordan Jr. was shot in the back and seriously injured by a sniper. A sniper fired a .30-06 rifle at Jordan as he was