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Outlook: Our Love Beat Neo-Nazism

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Duke Schneider and Catherine Boone

15/05/2017 GMT

Our Love Beat Neo-Nazism

BBC World Service - Outlook, Our Love Beat Neo-Nazism

Duke was a neo-Nazi and Catherine an African American, love seemed out of the question.

Duke was a Neo-Nazi and Catherine an African-American. Love between them seemed out of the question.

Duke Schneider is a former wrestler from New York.  He is also a former neo-Nazi.  For eight years he was a devoted member of the movement. Then he realised he was falling in love with a woman who, according to his Nazi principles, he should hate - an African American health worker called Catherine Boone.  Duke and Catherine tell Jo Fidgen their extraordinary story.

In Baghdad it is unusual to see a woman riding a bike so Marina Jaber stands out when she cycles around town.  Not everyone approves, but she is not going to let that stop her.  She tells us how she's got people used to the idea of women cyclists. 

In 1994 Ghanaian musician, Ata Kak released his first record.  It sold only a handful of copies and Ata Kak retired from music, a disappointed man. Then in 2002 an American student called Brian Shimkovitz stopped at a stall selling cassette tapes in Cape Coast in Ghana and made a chance discovery. 

Juliana Kasumu has complex feelings about hair. She is a British-Nigerian photographer who has been working on a series of images of young black women and girls with natural, rather than relaxed or straightened, hair. She called the project 'Next Generation'.

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