The Tuskegee syphilis study, as the experiment is often called today, began in 1932 with the recruitment of 600 Black men, 399 with syphilis and 201 without, to serve as the control group.

Although it would take five more years and an Associated Press exposé to bring his findings to light, Buxtun would demonstrate that the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male ...

Clinical trials (also called medical research and research studies) are used to determine whether new drugs/treatments are ...

Cancer clinical trials lack diversity, with white patients overrepresented and minorities, women, and the elderly ...

The unethical experiments were originally brought to light in the fall of 2010 by Wellesley College historian Susan Reverby as she was looking into archived documents on the Tuskegee syphilis study—a ...

The legendary attorney, who represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., will have his portrait hang permanently at the ...

syphilis experiment; and became the first black president of the Alabama Bar Association. An honorary and emeriti trustee of Case Western Reserve, Gray, 83, lives in Tuskegee. The recent ...

More than 1,400 attendees enjoyed the sold-out DuPage County “I Have a Dream” Martin Luther King Jr. Unity breakfast on ...