Infamous Syphilis Study News Today

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 funeral expenses for the deceased. The payments were vital to survivors of the victims in a time and place ravaged by poverty and racism.

The Milbank Memorial Fund’s public apology to descendants of the study’s victims is rooted in America’s racial reckoning after George Floyd’s murder by police in 2020.

Altruistic as they might sound, the checks — $100 at most — were no simple act of charity: They were part of an almost unimaginable scheme.

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

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 funeral expenses for the deceased. The payments were vital to survivors of the victims in a time and place ravaged by poverty and racism.

A New York-based philanthropy is apologizing for its role 50 years after the study was revealed to the public.

Fifty years after the study was revealed to the public and halted, the organization that made funeral payments for the men who died publicly apologized to descendants of the study's victims.

Fifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed to the public and halted, a New York Foundation, the Milbank Memorial Fund, is publicly...

Fifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed to the public and halted, a New York Foundation, the Milbank Memorial Fund, is publicly...

Fifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed to the public and halted, a New York Foundation, the Milbank Memorial Fund, is publicly...