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Members of the 333rd Field Army Battalion were honored posthumously by the U.S. government.

Brown flew in 68 combat missions for the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots in U.S. history, but he was also a committed to public service as an educator and university leader.

In today’s NewsOne Top 5, we take a quick look at the stories trending on our site about the Charleston shooting, plus racist experiments