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 ...

As a medical student and Black woman, I cannot remain silent as Senate Bill 1 erases the history and experiences of my people and marginalized groups.

Today, the effects of the study still linger — it is often blamed for the unwillingness of some African Americans to participate in medical research. In observance of the 50th anniversary of ...

For 40 years starting in 1932, medical workers in the segregated South withheld treatment for Black men who were unaware they had syphilis, so doctors could track the ravages of ...

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 died.

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.