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In 1940, Wilma Rudolph was born prematurely in Clarksville, Tennessee — the twentieth of twenty-two children. By age four, polio had paralyzed her left leg....
On April 15, 1996, Archbishop Desmond Tutu opened the first public hearing of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the East London City Hall....
In the early 1950s, Blanche Rudolph drove ninety miles round trip each week from Clarksville, Tennessee, to Meharry Medical College in Nashville — one of...
On April 15, 1996, Archbishop Desmond Tutu gaveled open the first hearings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in East London's city hall. The...
On September 2, 1960, in Rome's Stadio Olimpico, a young woman from Clarksville, Tennessee crouched in the starting blocks of the 100-meter final. Wilma Rudolph...
On April 15, 1996, Archbishop Desmond Tutu opened the first public hearing of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the East London city hall....
On April 12, 1955, Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. stepped to the podium at the University of Michigan's Rackham Auditorium and delivered the words millions of...
On May 8, 1980, the Thirty-Third World Health Assembly stood and did something unprecedented — they declared that humanity had defeated smallpox forever. A disease...
In 1999, Dr. Denis Mukwege opened Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, a city in eastern Congo scarred by decades of armed conflict. He expected to practice...
On May 8, 1980, delegates at the Thirty-Third World Health Assembly in Geneva rose to affirm what had never before been true in human history:...
On May 8, 1980, the Thirty-Third World Health Assembly declared in Geneva what no generation before had dared believe: smallpox — a disease that killed...
In 1969, malaria was killing thousands of soldiers across Southeast Asia, and every modern drug was failing. The Chinese government turned to a quiet, determined...
In 1969, malaria was killing thousands of soldiers along the Vietnam border, and modern medicine had no answer. The Chinese government tapped a thirty-nine-year-old researcher...
In 1969, as malaria ravaged soldiers across Southeast Asia, Chinese chemist Tu Youyou was tasked with finding a cure. She and her team at the...
On April 12, 1955, Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. stepped to the podium at Rackham Auditorium on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. Before...
On April 12, 1955, hundreds of scientists and reporters packed the Rackham Auditorium at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Thomas Francis Jr....