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A new Pew Research Center report might seem to give a boost to Donald Trump and other Republicans who hope to use conspiracy theories about the federal government to reach Black voters.But if you dig into the numbers, it’s also clear why that approach will fail.The report’s headline is a bit more …
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Majorities say the criminal justice, political and economic systems were designed to hold Black people back(Illustration by JDawnInk via Getty Images) How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this study to explore how Black Americans think about the factors that contribute to or hinder their …
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Release date: February 29, 2024 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 great honor to have noted attorney Fred D. Gray speak about his …
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Fifty years ago, 400 Black sharecroppers in Tuskegee, Alabama were subject to a study that let 128 participants die at the hands of “science.” To put it bluntly, officials and trusted practitioners used Black men as guinea pigs in an experiment that would eventually be outed as one of the most …
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Foundation has announced a scholarship program for descendants of those affected by the harrowing Tuskegee Experiment in Alabama. The experiment saw 623 Black men in Alabama who had syphilis withheld treatment by federal officials who wanted to …
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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 with syphilis did not receive treatment.The Tuskegee study is one of the most well-known examples …
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Black communities continue to grapple with the enduring trauma inflicted by the Tuskegee Syphilis experiments, which spanned over four decades from 1932 to 1972. However, the descendants of Black men affected by this study may soon receive financial relief with a new scholarship fund.On Wednesday, …
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This picture is one in a sequence of shots during a vaccination drive. 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 Untreated Syphilis in the …
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In 1972, a whistleblower revealed that the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) had withheld syphilis treatment from hundreds of Black men as part of a 40-year study observing the natural course of the disease. The experiment’s subjects—the majority of whom were sharecroppers from rural …
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A cache of documents related to the Tuskegee syphilis study – a 40-year experiment that tracked infected Black men without treating them – has now been digitized for public use, the National Library of Medicine announced. The documents concern one of medical history’s bleakest chapters. In 1932, …
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