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  Here’s why Cuba Gooding Jr. bears a country’s name

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  On April 27, 1944, singer ‘Cuba’ Gooding Sr was born to Dudley MacDonald Gooding and Addie Alston in the Bronx. Dudley is said to have emigrated from Barbados to Cuba to escape servitude in...

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  Meet Aesha Ash, the ballerina in the inner cities changing stereotypes about black women

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  When Aesha Ash retired in 2008 emerging as the only African-American ballerina at the New York City Ballet, she was certain that she had to take the dance form to places it wouldn’t ordinarily be...

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  ‘You killed my brother’ – sister of executed inmate Nathaniel Woods tells Alabama governor

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  Pamela Woods, brother to Nathaniel Woods, who was executed as an accomplice in the murder of three police officers in 2004 has confronted Gov. Kay Ivey at a press conference. Ivey was speaking with reporters...

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  Is George Washington really the father of African-American West Ford?

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  African-American, West Ford’s background has been the subject of controversy for years.  Many of his descendants hold that he was the son of George Washington and an enslaved house servant at...

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  Denied job despite being qualified, here’s how Perry Young became first African-American hired commercial pilot

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  A result of a racist system is that you could be skilled in a field and qualified for a job yet be overlooked simply for being black, and Perry Young Jr, an airplane and helicopter pilot found out the...

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  How the 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott by Black riders nearly collapsed a racist bus company

  Michael Eli Dokosi

  African-Americans faced discrimination at work and in schools. They faced further unfair treatment on the segregated bus system which compelled them to take the backseat as well as give up seats for a...

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