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A 94-Year-Old’s Fight for His Birth Certificate
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A 94-year-old Houston man, born on a Louisiana plantation in 1931, is finally fighting for his birth certificate — a document stolen by history and denied by bureaucracy. Raised in a world where Black lives were still unrecorded, James Dorsey spent decades without proof of his existence, despite having a Social Security card and driver’s license. His daughter, Barbara, is determined to get him the official paper he’s been denied for nearly a century — not just for legal reasons, but as a symbol of recognition, dignity, and connection to his erased past. Their battle highlights how the lingering wounds of slavery still shape lives today, one missing document at a time.
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