“The Tuskegee Experiment was also conducted by the CDC. Let this sink in,” reads a June 18 Facebook post. The post accumulated more than 67,000 shares within a month. Similar claims have ...

Clinton was apologizing for one of the most horrific chapters of American history, the infamous “Tuskegee Experiment.” Officially called the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the ...

Known officially as the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male, the 40-year experiment run by the Public Health Service followed 600 rural black men in Alabama with syphilis over ...

When asked to explain why so many Black people simply don’t trust the federal government with their health, a common answer is “because of what happened at Tuskegee.” Reference to that ...

a government medical experiment conducted in the Tuskegee, Ala., area had allowed hundreds of African-American men with syphilis to go untreated so that scientists could study the effects of the ...

The infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, a government experiment that charted the effects of the untreated disease on mostly poor and uneducated black men, was conducted for 40 years before it was ...

Among scholars who’ve studied Tuskegee, there’s a lot of debate about how much — if any — racism was involved in the experiment. But no one disputes that Tuskegee had nothing whatsoever to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The horror of the experiment was conveyed by its blunt title — the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.” It began in 1932 in Macon County, Ala., where there was a near ...

The details of the Tuskegee experiment remained little known until 1972, when Peter Buxtun, a former investigator with the Public Health Service, provided details on the study to the Associated Press.