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How an Associated Press reporter broke the Tuskegee syphilis story
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoFor four decades, the United States government enrolled hundreds of Black men in Alabama in a study...
How Black Latinos found a future in an Alabama HBCU after slavery
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoIn the 1900s, an Afro-Cuban skilled worker named Eleno Lino was on the hunt for education. Lino...
Three Alabama teens charged with murder in 'Sweet 16' party shooting
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year ago(Reuters) -Three Alabama teenagers have been taken into custody and charged with murder in last...
How a father and son fought segregation and became the first Black generals in the US military
CNN via Yahoo Canada News· 5 months agoIn 1940, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. became the first Black person to achieve the rank of brigadier...
Tuskegee Airman Raymond Cassagnol dies at 102
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoRaymond Cassagnol, a Haitian pilot and a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed group of Black military aviators during World War II, has died. Cassagnol died June 24 at his home in Florida ...
‘We Never Imagined This’: The Dizzying Ascent of Lil Durk
Rolling Stone via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoON A SHIVERY, star-filled evening in May, Durk Banks is surrounded by friends, family, and what...
On This Day, Sept. 10: Ferry sinks off Tanzania, killing nearly 200
United Press International via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoThe Guided-missile destroyer USS Stout tows Tanzanian-flagged passenger ferry Spice Island on...
In death, Miami’s black pioneers deserve the dignity denied them in life
Miami Herald via Yahoo Canada News· 12 months agoDown a forgotten street in a forgotten neighborhood sits a forgotten place. And no, that’s not...
Why Harriet Tubman on the $20 Is Symbolism That Matters
The Daily Beast via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoPhoto Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/GettyOne of America’s most fervently held—and...
Two men fought for jobs in a river-town mill. 50 years later, the nation is still divided.
USA TODAY via Yahoo Finance Canada· 4 months agoMoney was tight the day Brian Weber was born in his family’s living room, nine months after his dad...
