President Joe Biden has announced the 2025 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, including trailblazers whose work has shaped Black history, culture, and progress, such as Fannie Lou Hamer, Magic Johnson, and Denzel Washington.
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Fred Gray, the ‘chief counsel for the protest movement,’ to get Medal of Freedom for his civil rights work
Over the past seven decades, longtime Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and the victims of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, in which the U.S. Public Health Service refused for decades to provide readily available treatment to Black men who had the disease. Gray played important roles in […]