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Captain America and Tuskegee

Lynn Neary talks with Axel Alonso, senior editor at Marvel Comics and editor of the new Captain America comic series called Truth: Red, White and Black. It draws on true stories of government experiments done on black men in Tuskegee in 1932.

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Lynn Neary is an NPR arts correspondent covering books and publishing.

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