Overcoming vaccine skepticism in shadow of Tuskegee Experiment a tall task in Michigan’s Black communities Updated Jan 06, 2021; Posted Jan 06, 2021 Demali Beard, a registered nurse, is given the COVID-19 vaccine by syringe, administered by Leslie Rush, department manager at 10-West at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, on Thursday, December 17, 2020. (Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)Mike Mulholland | MLive.com Facebook Share Detroit’s white mayor recently acknowledged the federal government has tricked Black Americans before. He then propped up the left sleeve of his yellow shirt and was pricked in the upper arm with a needle that injected the emergency coronavirus vaccine. This is different, Mayor Mike Duggan said. “It’s the right thing.”