As the U.S. continues the push to get more Americans vaccinated against COVID-19, there is a renewed effort to address vaccine hesitancy, especially among African Americans. A new short film takes a ...

EDITOR'S NOTE — On July 25, 1972, Jean Heller, a reporter on The Associated Press investigative team, then called the Special Assignment Team, broke news that rocked the nation. Based on documents ...

For almost 40 years starting in the 1930s, as government researchers purposely let hundreds of Black men die of syphilis in Alabama so they could study the disease, a foundation in New York covered ...

Bill Jenkins, a government epidemiologist who tried to expose the unethical Tuskegee syphilis study in the 1960s and devoted the rest of his career to fighting racism in health care, died Feb. 17 in ...

Bill Jenkins, a government epidemiologist who tried to expose the unethical Tuskegee syphilis study in the 1960s and devoted the rest of his career to fighting racism in health care, died Feb. 17 in ...

Labeling the study on syphilis as the “Tuskegee Study” mispresents the role of the Tuskegee Institute and reinforces how Black men were violated to study an epidemic that was affecting all Americans.

In December of last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded $1.6 million to the Bandim Health Project at the University of Southern Denmark to study the effects of a hepatitis B ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Descendants of hundreds of black men who were left untreated for syphilis during an infamous government study want a judge to give them any money remaining from a $9 million legal ...

The Tuskegee syphilis study stands as one of the greatest moral failures in American medical history, a reminder of what happens when vulnerable people are treated as expendable in the name of ...