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New $5M scholarship fund created for descendants of Tuskegee syphilis experiment

The descendants of the Black men who were affected by the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiments may soon receive financial relief through a new scholarship fund.

New $5M scholarship fund created for descendants of Tuskegee syphilis experiment

The descendants of the Black men who were affected by the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiments may soon receive financial relief through a new scholarship fund.

New Scholarship Fund For Tuskegee Syphilis Study Descendants

The CDC Foundation Launches Scholarship Fund for Descendants of Black Men in the Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee

/PRNewswire/ -- The CDC Foundation today announced a new endowed scholarship program, Voices Today for Change Tomorrow, for descendants of the Black men who...

Investigation into source of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccine-related deaths

Investigation into source of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccine related deaths

Understanding racism in health care

“Racism is not just police brutality," says Dr. Rechina Bicette, a Black doctor who's currently Associate Medical Director of Emergency Medicine for Baylor St. Lukes in the Houston Medical Center. "It’s not just unfair housing practices, but those systematic injustices filter down to the medical field as well.”

Stop saying 'Tuskegee Study.' It's unfair to the victims

Tuskegee, a town in Alabama, is the focus of Black pride. The 'Tuskegee Study' was a crime against Black Americans perpetrated by the U.S. government.

Decades later, infamous Tuskegee syphilis study stirs wariness in Black community over COVID-19 vaccine

Decades later, infamous Tuskegee syphilis study stirs wariness in Black community over COVID-19 vaccine Kurtis Lee © (Julie Bennett / For The Times) Omar Neal, whose uncle Freddie Lee Tyson was a victim of the Tuskegee syphilis study. (Julie Bennett / For The Times) Omar Neal often thinks back on the calculated betrayal of hundreds of Black men and how it still shapes so much about this rural Alabama community. He remembers the mechanic who went from house to house fixing cars and the sharecropper who lived off a narrow dirt road. He thinks too of his uncle Freddie Lee Tyson, a carpenter, and how the betrayal shaped his life.

Daughters of Tuskegee Syphilis Study survivors address COVID-19 vaccine - TheGrio

Daughters of Tuskegee Syphilis Study survivors address COVID-19 vaccine That infamy is why 35 percent of Blacks would 'probably not' or 'definitely not' take a vaccine. Loading the player... As the vaccines against coronavirus start to roll out across the country first to the most vulnerable, some African Americans have expressed concerns about taking it, based on history.  A new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 35 percent of Black Americans still would “probably not” or “definitely not” take a coronavirus vaccine, even if scientists deem it safe, and it is widely available for free.  The now-infamous treatment of its study subjects at Tuskegee Institute is the reason why “an Institutional Review Board (IRB) was created, and part of that board is responsible for analyzing and approving the Covid-19 vaccine,” says Lillie Head. (Photo: Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation)