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  How Chicago cops’ killing of Black Panther’s Fred Hampton affected his 19-year-old pregnant fiancée

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  In the wake of recent killings of black people in the US, resulting in protests, we go back to December 4, 1969 when the chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, Fredrick Allen Hampton,...

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  When Ohio residents rallied to protect fugitive slave Addison White from U.S. Marshals

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  In the race relations of blacks and whites in the United States, none proved more intriguing than the case of Addison White, a slave of Daniel White, who escaped from Fleming County, Kentucky in 1856 using...

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  Sugar Ray Leonard, the boxer who came out of retirement to win world titles in five weight classes

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  The boxing gods ushered in a unique period in the 1980s when some of the memorable moments in boxing history involving four great champions was unleashed. The rivalry spanned the decade from the welterweight...

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  Outrage in Brazil as police kills 14-year-old boy leaving over 70 bullet marks

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  As the black community in America battles abusive acts of racists coupled with cops shooting them in their homes and even on the streets, the fate of fellow blacks in Brazil is no better. Even as enraged...

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  Man dies in Minneapolis protest as white woman stabbing looters plays victim

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  With the murder of 46-year-old African-American George Floyd on Memorial Day at the hands of white police officer, Derek M. Chauvin and three others, protesters began gathering at noon on Wednesday near...

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  Stewart Fulbright, Tuskegee Airman who became professor emeritus at NCCU

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  While still a young fella, Stewart Fulbright desired to fly, so constructed model airplanes and read magazines about flying. After graduating from Lincoln High School in Springfield in 1937, he enlisted...

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