Letters to the Editor
Military families, including with relatives buried in national cemeteries, express disgust at the Trump campaign’s conduct at Arlington.
Sept. 4, 2024
World & Nation
Divers searching Lake Huron for pieces of aviation and Black military history are bringing up parts of the plane 2nd Lt. Frank Moody of L.A. flew in 1944.
Aug. 18, 2023
Obituaries
Lumpkin, a native Angeleno, was an intelligence officer with the famed squadron of Black aviators known as the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II.
Jan. 8, 2021
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.
July 25, 2022
California
Democrat Adam Gray’s investment in rural Atwater is under scrutiny as he fights to unseat Republican Rep. John Duarte in California’s 13th Congressional District.
Aug. 25, 2024
Sept. 15, 2014
Opinion
Tuskegee, a town in Alabama, is the focus of Black pride. The ‘Tuskegee Study’ was a crime against Black Americans perpetrated by the U.S. government.
Feb. 12, 2021
Willie Rogers, the oldest surviving member of the original Tuskegee Airmen, has died at the age of 101.
Nov. 21, 2016
Science & Medicine
It’s not just the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study, Black Americans’ skepticism about COVID vaccines is fueled by health inequities they face now.
March 25, 2021
Entertainment & Arts
History is given a warm theatrical salute in “Fly,” a tap-dance-infused drama that tells the story of a group of Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American Army Air Corps fighters who helped break down the color barrier in the military through their excellence, bravery and willingness to lay down their lives for a country that still treated them like second-class citizens.
Feb. 1, 2016