What is "tuskegee"

place in Alabama, named from a Muskogee tribal town taskeke (first recorded in Spanish as tasquiqui), literally "warriors."

Tuskegee, Alabama is a city in the United States.

Tuskegee may also refer to:

• Tuskegee (Cherokee town), a village site in Tennessee, U.S., the childhood home of Sequoyah
• Tuskegee University, formerly known as the Tuskegee Institute, in Tuskegee, Alabama
• Tuskegee (album), a 2012 album by American soul singer Lionel Richie

Tuskegee (also spelled Toskegee, Taskigi, and similar variations) was an Overhill Cherokee town located along the Little Tennessee River in what is now Monroe County, Tennessee, United States. The town developed in the late 1750s alongside Fort Loudoun, and was inhabited until the late 1770s, when it was evacuated and probably burned during the Cherokee–American wars. Tuskegee is best known as the birthplace of the Cherokee craftsman Sequoyah.

Now flooded by Tellico Lake, the Tuskegee site was investigated by archaeologists prior to inundation in the 1970s.

Tuskegee is the tenth solo album by American singer-songwriter Lionel Richie, released on March 5, 2012 through Mercury Records. The album consists entirely of reinterpretations of previously released songs by Richie, each performed with a different guest artist. It became Richie's third number-one album on the Billboard 200 and his first since Dancing on the Ceiling in 1986. Tuskegee also became Richie's first album to sell more than a million copies in the United States since Dancing on the Ceiling.

The album is named after the Alabama city where Richie was born and later completed his undergraduate degree at Tuskegee Institute.