Tina, a 58-year-old Black woman living in the Delta, is Mississippi born and raised.[1] She raised four children and spent ...

In a functioning system, the kind of placebo-controlled vaccine trials that Secretary Kennedy is calling for would never get ...

Racial inequities in health care and research have long been a problem. Increasing the number of Black participants in ...

The experiment, called the Tuskegee Study began in 1932 with about 600 black men mostly poor and uneducated, from Tuskegee, Ala., an area that had the highest syphilis rate in the nation at the time.

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 study, has ...

Whistleblower Peter Buxtun in San Francisco. He exposed the Tuskegee syphilis study, a 40-year experiment in which hundreds of Black men in Alabama were allowed to go untreated for syphilis. (Liz ...

Peter Buxtun has died at age 86. He is known as the whistleblower who revealed the U.S. government was leaving Black men untreated for syphilis during a study in Tuskegee, Ala.