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For nearly 30 years the question of who killed Tupac Shakur has remained unanswered. During that time a cottage industry of books, documentaries, podcasts, conspiracy theories, and on-line sleuthing has grown up around the unsolved murder. Now we are just days away from the begin ...  Show more

Beginning August 10, 2026 the only person to be charged in connection with the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur will go on trial in Las Vegas. Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting on September 7, 1996 and for nearly 30 years the murder has gone unsolved. Now 63-year-old Duane Kee ...  Show more

In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the epidemic. Diagnosed with hemophilia at birth, Ryan contracted HIV through contaminated blood product ...  Show more

In December 1984, Indiana-native Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS at the age of thirteen. The disease had no known treatment, no cure, and Ryan was given six months to live. The clock was ticking, and Ryan soon found himself at the center of a media storm. Learn more about your ...  Show more

It’s forty years since the first report on HIV/Aids appeared in a medical journal. Back in the early days in the 1980s a misunderstanding made one man the face of the epidemic. A Canadian air steward, Gaetan Dugas was mistakenly identified as ‘Patient Zero’. A misreading of sc ...

In the 1980s, the world was gripped by a virus that was killing people in their thousands; savaging communities and creating a climate of fear, blame and ignorance. That virus was HIV, and here to sift the facts from the fiction and explain how the AIDS crisis transformed everyth ...  Show more