The man who blew the whistle on the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, and who was featured in Alabama Public Radio’s yearlong investigation of rural health, is among the notable deaths of 2024. Peter Buxton spoke with APR on the twentieth anniversary of President Bill Clinton’s apology for the program that infected black men with the disease, and then watched its impact on their health, without treatment. APR’s coverage earned the news team the 50th annual Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Radio, and the John Seigenthaler Prize for Courage in Journalism from RFK Human Rights.
The world of public radio also lost NPR’s original “Morning Edition” host Bob Edwards. He anchored National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" for just under twenty five years and was the baritone voice who told many Americans what had happened while they slept. He died on February tenth.
It was a murder case almost everyone had an opinion on. O.J. Simpson 's "trial of the century" over the 1994 killings of his ex-wife and her friend bared divisions over race and law enforcement in America and brought an intersection of sports, crime, entertainment and class that was hard to turn away from. In a controversial verdict, the football star-turned-actor was acquitted in the criminal trial but later found civilly liable in the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Years later, he served nine years in prison on unrelated charges. His death in April brought...
The High Court has directed that investigations be carried out against lawyer Ndegwa Njiru and his two clients for subornation of perjury and perjury ( lying under oath) in relation allegations tha...