diff --git a/TODO.txt b/TODO.txt
index cf5d4556..d789e6da 100644
--- a/TODO.txt
+++ b/TODO.txt
@@ -18,4 +18,3 @@ Version 0.10
 * Enable doctests of experimental `skimage.feature.brief`
 * Remove deprecated `skimage.segmentation.visualize_boundaries`
 * Remove deprecated `skimage.morphology.greyscale_*`
-* Remove deprecated `skimage.exposure.equalize`
diff --git a/skimage/exposure/__init__.py b/skimage/exposure/__init__.py
index 7ceb5fbf..d78cf927 100644
--- a/skimage/exposure/__init__.py
+++ b/skimage/exposure/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from .exposure import histogram, equalize, equalize_hist, \
+from .exposure import histogram, equalize_hist, \
                       rescale_intensity, cumulative_distribution, \
                       adjust_gamma, adjust_sigmoid, adjust_log
 
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ from ._adapthist import equalize_adapthist
 
 
 __all__ = ['histogram',
-           'equalize',
            'equalize_hist',
            'equalize_adapthist',
            'rescale_intensity',
diff --git a/skimage/exposure/exposure.py b/skimage/exposure/exposure.py
index ed3f6c4e..14379f6b 100644
--- a/skimage/exposure/exposure.py
+++ b/skimage/exposure/exposure.py
@@ -105,11 +105,6 @@ def cumulative_distribution(image, nbins=256):
     return img_cdf, bin_centers
 
 
-@deprecated('equalize_hist')
-def equalize(image, nbins=256):
-    return equalize_hist(image, nbins)
-
-
 def equalize_hist(image, nbins=256):
     """Return image after histogram equalization.