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Lita Crawler is riding in the Calgary Stampede’s first ever Lady Warrior race — a single-lap bareback horse race. But how does the 5-1 rider get on her saddleless horse? 'I just swing on.'
Decades later, the descendants of Black people harmed by medical research in the past say they are still dealing with the impact of those transgressio
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 whe...
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.
Hundreds of Black men were infected with syphilis by doctors.