Black victims of U-Michigan doc seek equity in settlements

Dwight Hicks addresses the media during a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, in Novi, Mich. Hicks, is one of several Black former University of Michigan student-athletes who claim they were abused by a sports doctor who worked there for decades. Attorneys are asking the university to treat them fairly as it settles hundreds of lawsuits expected to cost the school millions of dollars. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Dr. Airron Richardson addresses the media during a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, in Novi, Mich. Richardson, is one of several Black former University of Michigan student-athletes who claim they were abused by a sports doctor who worked there for decades. Attorneys are asking the university to treat them fairly as it settles hundreds of lawsuits expected to cost the school millions of dollars. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

FILE - This file photo, date and location not known, provided by the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan shows Dr. Robert E. Anderson. Dozens of Black former University of Michigan student-athletes who claim they were abused by Anderson, who worked there for decades, are asking the university to treat them fairly as it settles hundreds of lawsuits expected to cost the school millions of dollars. On Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, they demanded that victims of Anderson receive fair compensation “based on their trauma rather than based on their color.” (Robert Kalmbach/Bentley Historical Library University of Michigan via AP, File)

Dwight Hicks addresses the media during a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, in Novi, Mich. Hicks, is one of several Black former University of Michigan student-athletes who claim they were abused by a sports doctor who worked there for decades. Attorneys are asking the university to treat them fairly as it settles hundreds of lawsuits expected to cost the school millions of dollars. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)