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‘Politics is nasty. And it’s getting worse’: Lionel Richie on his worries for America, his friend Michael Jackson – and why he still believes in the power of love

He’s known for his ballads and winning smile – but the singer has also had a ringside seat to history, from the civil rights battles in his native Alabama to the rise and fall of pop’s biggest superstar

The Guardian - UK

Trump Administration's DEI Order Causes Confusion And Backlash

Learn about the tribute paid to Tuskegee Airmen by the Alabama Air National Guard and the controversy surrounding diversity programs in the military.

Top News

Invisible Generals: the Black military pioneers hidden in US history

Benjamin O Davis Sr and Jr were high-fliers in every way, the latter commanding the Tuskegee Airmen. The author Doug Melville, a descendant, is determined to give them their due

The Guardian - US

A century ago, Black WWI vets demanded better care. They got their own VA hospital

This is the centennial of the first Veterans Affairs hospital established to treat Black veterans. It opened in Tuskegee, Ala., after veterans were denied equitable health care after World War I.

WEKU

Black teens learn to fly and aim for careers in aviation in the footsteps of Tuskegee Airmen

Marie Ronny and Kyan Bovee expect their futures to take off

The Independent UK

Wreckage from Tuskegee airman's warplane recovered from Lake Huron

The recovered wreck will help tell the full story of America's first Black military pilots.

LiveScience

Wreckage from Tuskegee airman's plane that crashed during WWII training recovered from Lake Huron

A team of divers have been trolling the deep, cold waters of Lake Huron off Michigan’s Thumb for several weeks each of the past few years searching for scattered pieces of aviation — and Black military — history

The Independent UK

Oscar Lawton Wilkerson Jr., last known surviving member of the Tuskegee Airmen in Chicago area, dead at 96

His love of aviation never faded despite racism that kept him and other Black pilots from getting jobs with airlines.

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AP exposes the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: The 50th Anniversary

The men were told they were being treated for “bad blood.”

The Independent UK

How an AP reporter broke the Tuskegee syphilis story

For four decades, the United States government enrolled hundreds of Black men in Alabama in a study on syphilis, just so they could document the disease’s ravages on the human body

The Conversation

Fred Gray, the 'chief counsel for the protest movement,' to get Medal of Freedom for his civil rights work

Over the past seven decades, longtime Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and the victims of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, in which the U.S. Public Health Service refused for decades to provide readily available treatment to Black men who had the disease.

Al Jazeera

US fund apologises for role in racist Tuskegee syphilis study

Starting in 1932, medical workers in Alabama withheld treatment from unsuspecting Black men infected with syphilis.

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A fund apologizes for its role in a syphilis study that targeted Black men

Fifty years after the study was revealed to the public and halted, the organization that made funeral payments for the men who died publicly apologized to descendants of the study's victims.

The Independent UK

New York fund apologizes for role in Tuskegee syphilis study

A New York-based philanthropy is publicly apologizing for its role in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study

Mic

It’s been 50 years since the Tuskegee Experiment. American healthcare is still racist.

Researcher Martin Tobin believes that revisiting the horrific "study" can help medical professional address today’s disparities.

Salon

10 facts about the Tuskegee Airmen

The first Black pilots to serve in the United States military put the U.S. armed forces on the road to integration

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