Brown is the vice president of medical affairs and patient advocacy at Southern Research and project lead for Catalyst. Sodeke is the resident bioethicist and professor of bioethics at the Center for ...

It is one of the most devastating and inhumane events in recent American history, and Black communities are still feeling the effects of it today. The it in question refers to the “Tuskegee Study of ...

Sixty-five years after the federal government undertook its syphilis research project on unsuspecting African-American men, President Clinton apologized to the survivors and all victims' families. In ...

The study charted syphilis progression in unknowing Black men. Lillie Tyson Head and her daughter, Carmen Head Thornton, have reason to be skeptical about the COVID-19 vaccine. After all, it was ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. | The infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, a government experiment that charted the effects of the untreated disease on mostly poor and uneducated black men, was conducted for 40 years ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation has pledged to give $5 million in scholarships for descendants of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, in which more than 600 Black men infected ...

This talk from the MOCRA archives was given on April 30, 2002, in conjunction with the exhibition Tony Hooker: The Greater Good – An Artist’s Contemporary View of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. It was a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Buxtun, the ...

That infamy is why 35 percent of Blacks would ‘probably not’ or ‘definitely not’ take a vaccine. As the vaccines against coronavirus start to roll out across the country first to the most vulnerable, ...

The cast of Congo Square Theatre's How Blood Go at the world premiere's first rehearsal. Director Tiffany Fulson is center in green sweater. Credit: Sulyiman Stokes In 1932, Green Adair was one of 399 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee ...