The HistoryMakers video oral history with Malik Yoba
Malik Yoba (Interviewee), Julieanna L. Richardson (Interviewer), Matthew Hickey, HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection) (Production company)
Actor and youth activist Malik Yoba was born Abdul-Malik Kashie Yoba on September 17, 1967 in the Bronx, New York. He was raised a Sunni Muslim, and earned his high school diploma in 1989 from City-As-School. He joined City Kids Foundation in 1986 as a volunteer, and became vice president in 1991. That same year, Yoba landed a starring role in the Disney film Cool Runnings. In 1994, Yoba received the role of NYPD Detective J.C. Williams in the Fox television police drama New York Undercover, where he and his co-star Michael DeLorenzo became the first actors of color starring in both leading roles of a cop-drama. Yoba went on to star in numerous television series and feature films. He was honored with three NAACP Image Awards in 1996, 1997 and 1998 for his work on New York Undercover. Yoba joined the cast of Fox's Empire in 2014
Online Video, English, 2016
The HistoryMakers, Chicago, Illinois, 2016