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Community members and family members are mourning the loss of a veteran journalist from Washington, D.C. who died Tuesday. Derrick Ward Sr., a reporter at NBC4 Washington (WRC-TV) and formerly of ...
Hydeia Broadbent, who was born with HIV and developed AIDS at 5, has died. She raised awareness about the virus and disease when she appeared with Magic Johnson on a Nickelodeon show in 1992.
Reynolds died in 1983, and shortly afterward Jennings was named sole anchor of World News Tonight; Robinson was relegated to the weekend anchor post, as well as reading hourly news briefs. Robinson left ABC in 1983 and joined WMAQ-TV in Chicago in March 1984; he was the station's first black anchor. His tenure with the station was rocky, and he ...
Pages in category "AIDS-related deaths in Washington, D.C." The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a timeline of HIV/AIDS, including but not limited to cases before 1980. Pre-1980s See also: Timeline of early HIV/AIDS cases Researchers estimate that some time in the early 20th century, a form of Simian immunodeficiency virus found in chimpanzees (SIVcpz) first entered humans in Central Africa and began circulating in Léopoldville (modern-day Kinshasa) by the 1920s. This gave rise ...
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The Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights was a large demonstration for LGBT rights on October 11, 1987, in Washington, DC, motivated in part by anger over the government's AIDS response. [133] The march was the largest civil rights demonstration in Washington since the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. [134]
Hydeia Broadbent, a prominent HIV/AIDS activist who gained media attention for being a part of America’s “first generation of children born HIV positive” in the late 1980s, died Tuesday.