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But he wasn’t done yet. Biden went over the slide when he was trying to encourage people to get vaccinated. Biden was describing why he thought some African Americans were reluctant to get vaccinated because they were remembering when the “Tuskegee Airmen” were experimented on. Once again, Biden had no idea what he was talking about. He was confusing the Tuskegee Airmen – the famous black pilot contingent that fought during World War II – and the Tuskegee Study – an abominably unethical syphilis study where public health officials told black men they were being treated but then di...

“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.”

The legacy of slavery and the patriarchal Christian white supremacist racist foundation on which the U.S. is built – the “original sin” – has carried to the present day continuing to marginalize, disenfranchise, and oppression people of African descent in this country.

Sean Walters wants to be a doctor someday. His great grandfather, Freddie Lee Tyson, was subjected to the infamous Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in

For most decisions in life, it's smart to be thoughtful — clever, even, to sit and stir, mull things over, or really take time to plan and ponder.  But the continuing spread of COVID-19 has put the decision to get vaccinated on a clock, and local and national leaders say it's running out.   This past week President Joe Biden announced his goal to at least partially vaccinate 70% of U.S. adults by July 4. With more than 56% of the population already there, reeling in another 14% over two months seems a simple task. However, a large amount of vaccine hesitation is making things dif...