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WVEL News Scope: Legendary Tuskegee Airman Floyd Carter Sr. Dies At 95

WVEL News Scope: Legendary Tuskegee Airman Floyd Carter Sr. Dies At 95

(Photo By Flickr User Pete Markham)     Living legend of the Tuskegee Airmen, Floyd Carter Sr., has passed away. According to VOA News, they report that Carter received many awards for his service in the Air Force and for the ground he broke being a Black man in the Air Force at a time…MORE

WVEL News/History Scope: Lerone Bennett, Jr. (1928-2018)

WVEL News/History Scope: Lerone Bennett, Jr. (1928-2018)

(Photo By Flickr User Tom Ipri)   African-American history author and former Ebony magazine editor Lerone Bennett Jr. has died in Chicago, IL at age 89. A.A. Rayner and Sons Funeral Home in Chicago, IL said that Bennett died on last Tuesday. Ebony magazine tells the Chicago Sun-Times that Bennett had vascular dementia. The newspaper reports Bennett…MORE

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