Tyler Albertario

Dec 17, 2023 | gaysonoma.com | Tyler Albertario

National/ News/ Top Stories Three weeks before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. arrived in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan to deliver what was to be one of the final public speeches of his life. Hundreds of people packed the gymnasium at the local high school to hear the civil rights icon speak. In the audience that night was an 18-year-old boy named Jerry DeGrieck. DeGrieck, already a longtime supporter of the Civil Rights Movement from an early age, was defying...

Dec 1, 2023 | theguardian.com | Nora Neus |Tyler Albertario

On 1 December 1988, for the first time in history, a public day of awareness was celebrated. Called World Aids Day, it served as an attempt by the World Health Organization and the United Nations to bring awareness to a disease that had already killed 45,000 Americans by that point and tens of thousands more worldwide.

Oct 26, 2023 | lgbtqnation.com | Tyler Albertario

Three weeks before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. arrived in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan to deliver what was to be one of the final public speeches of his life. Hundreds of people packed the gymnasium at the local high school to hear the civil rights icon speak. In the audience that night was a 17-year-old boy named Jerry DeGrieck.