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Tuskegee Airman Lee Archer dead at 90
12:54 PM on 01/29/2010
NEW YORK (AP) -- Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Lee A. Archer, a Tuskegee Airman considered to be the only black ace pilot who also broke racial barriers as an executive at a major U.S. company...
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Tuskegee Airmen to be honored with Rose Bowl float
12:02 PM on 12/29/2009
The Tuskegee Airmen are being honored for the new year. Not with speeches, medals or awards--but a float in a parade...
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Percy Sutton, attorney, politician and media mogul, dies at 89
8:13 AM on 12/27/2009
VIDEO - Percy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before launching successful careers as a political power broke...
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Conspiracy theories about HIV do real harm
10:00 AM on 12/16/2009
OPINION - HIV/AIDS conspiracy theories circulate in homes, barber shops, churches, and among activists in the African-American community.
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Tuskegee airman turned civil rights lawyer dies at 88
5:00 PM on 09/01/2009
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) -- Former Tuskegee Airman Robert Decatur, who became a judge and civil rights lawyer, will be buried in Biloxi this week...
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Blacks' mistrust of medical system limits organ donations
5:22 PM on 08/04/2009
An ambitious campaign to increase black enrollment on organ donation began in...
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Teen pilot sets record
8:50 AM on 07/08/2009
A teenaged pilot flies into the record books. She's the youngest African American female to pilot an airplane transcontinentally. It was a record she set over the weekend. It was a flawless landing for a single engine plane piloted...
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Teenage girl pilots plane cross country
8:00 PM on 06/29/2009
A California teen tries to make history by reaching for the skies. Fifteen-year-old pilot Kimberly Anyadike (on-ya-DEE-kay) left Compton, California for Newport News, Virginia today. Her 10 day trip will end with a return to Compton...
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Tuskegee airman dies (video)
4:30 PM on 06/04/2009
James Travis was one of the storied World War II airmen as a part of the nation's first black military pilots and ground crew. He trained as an aerial engineer, gunner and crew chief, serving with the 477th bombardment group at several bases. Travis died at his Cleveland home on...
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