What the signs never told them was they would become part of the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,” a secret experiment conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service to ...

Sodeke is the resident bioethicist and professor of bioethics at the Center for Biomedical Research at Tuskegee University. The word “Tuskegee” has long embodied the painful symbol of medical ...

for ‘Tuskegee,’ ‘farmers’, ‘Public Health Service,’ ‘syphilis,’” Heller says. They found an obscure medical journal — Heller can’t recall the title — that had been ...

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.

Forty years earlier, in 1932, federal scientists began studying 400 Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama ... exactly a secret — about a dozen medical journal articles about it had been published ...

Forty years earlier, in 1932, federal scientists began studying 400 Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama ... exactly a secret — about a dozen medical journal articles about it had been published ...

Shira Li Bartov is a Newsweek reporter based in New York. Her focus is on trending news, human interest and legal stories. She has covered labor and civil rights lawsuits extensively. Shira joined ...

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 ...

A foundation in New York has apologized for its role in the Tuskegee experiment, which studied 600 Black men, 399 of them with syphilis in the 1930s. The men were told they were being studied for ...

This talk from the MOCRA archives was given on April 30, 2002, in conjunction with the exhibition Tony Hooker: The Greater Good – An Artist’s Contemporary View of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. It was a ...