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  Leslie Uggams, first African-American performer to be featured on a weekly, national prime time TV series

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  By 1969, Leslie Uggams, who had a taste of show business as early as six, had her own television variety show, The Leslie Uggams Show on CBS-TV. It was the first network variety show to be hosted by a...

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  What we know about the investigations into the police shooting death of Breonna Taylor

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  Breonna Taylor would have turned 27 on Friday, June 5 June 2020. Instead, she was coldly murdered by police in Louisville on March 13 when they forced their way into the home of the emergency room technician...

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  The tragic tale of teen idol Frankie Lymon who died from heroin overdose

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  Frankie Lymon was America’s first black teenage pop star but by 1968, aged a mere 25 years, he was found dead from a heroin overdose in the same apartment building where he’d grown up. Lymon’s...

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  Paris protesters demand charges for officers who kneed Adama Traoré to death

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  Like George Floyd in America, Adama Traoré, was pinned down by three officers in July 2016 in northern Paris dying in handcuffs in the police van. The state agency which conducted Traoré’s...

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  How Nigerian-born British singer Sade became a global figure in popular culture for decades

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  Nigerian-born British singer Helen Folasade Adu known as Sade in entertainment circles was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2002 and promoted to Commander of the Order of the...

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  A tale of two arrests: Outrage as police grant courtesy to double murder suspect Arzadon

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  The world has every reason to be outraged following the death of Minneapolis resident, George Floyd. His life was snuffed out by policeman Derek Chauvin as three others – Thomas Lane, J. Alexander...

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