During the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s, Ruth Coker Burks spent her own money caring for patients abandoned by their families. She provided medicine

During the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s, Ruth Coker Burks spent her own money caring for patients abandoned by their families. She provided medicine, housing, transportation, and compassion, helping more than 1,000 people and arranging burials for many who had no one left to claim them. …