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The study that left Black men with syphilis untreated for decades was exposed as one of the biggest medical scandals in U.S. history in 1972.

Pope apologizes for 'catastrophic' school policy in Canada

WASHINGTON -- EDITOR'S NOTE -- On July 25, 1972, Jean Heller, a reporter on The Associated Press investigative team, then called the Special Assignment Team, broke news that rocked the nation. Based on documents leaked by Peter Buxtun, a whistleblower at the U.S. Public Health Service, the then 29-year-old journalist and the only woman on the team, reported that the federal government let hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama go untreated for syphilis for 40 years in order to study the impact of the disease on the human body. Most of the men were denied access to penicillin, even when it beca...

Russia aims new air strikes at Black Sea coastal targets

WASHINGTON (AP) — EDITOR’S NOTE — On July 25, 1972, Jean Heller, a reporter on The...