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  How soil exposes racial violence against enslaved Blacks in Alabama Museum

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  Chattel slavery, despite campaigns against it by some well-meaning people, continued, making gains for slave owners and administrators till the 1860s when the practice ended. Because of its brutal nature...

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  Why the Huli Wigmen of PNG grow their hair and then cut it off to make flamboyant wigs

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  Papua New Guinea’s approximately 312 diverse tribes are increasingly drawing in global people thanks to their unique ways and increasing tourist attractions. The Huli Wigmen, who have lived in the...

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  Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, power couple whose yrs together on stage, screen and in activism was enviable

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  Raiford Chatman Davis, also known as “Ossie” Davis, was an icon of the American entertainment arena playing roles in film, television and Broadway. He also served as a director, poet, playwright,...

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  Nobody documented Black life in Cleveland from the 1920s until the 60s like Allen E. Cole

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  Very much like John W. Mosley’s documentation of African-American life in Philadelphia and Atlantic City through photos, Allen E. Cole was a Black photographer who documented the lives of Black Cleveland,...

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  Ever knew MLK’s wife Coretta Scott King was a celebrated soprano and violin player?

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  You know Coretta Scott King for her civil rights activism and being a wife to Martin Luther King Jr., however, few know that in her early life, Coretta was a well-known singer and violin player. Another...

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  The evil frame-up that led to 167 Black Army soldiers being dishonorably discharged in 1906

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  The injustice perpetrated against the all-black 25th Infantry of the United States Army by no less a person than President Theodore Roosevelt underlines the view held by some that biases against blacks...

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