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In 1932 the United States Public Health Service commissioned a study on the effects of untreated syphilis. 600 poor black men from Alabama were selected to be a part of the study and were told that they were being reviewed for “bad blood.” From there, the Tuskegee Study took a turn for the worst. Medical professionals were able to successfully diagnose two-thirds of the men in the study, and by 1940, a known treatment was available. But, instead of offering treatment, medical professionals opted to chart the course of the disease versus offer the known cure to the black men. In would take over 40 years before this study officially ended, and even longer before an official apology came from the United States government. In this episode of Black History in Two Minutes or So hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. — with additional commentary from Imani Perry of Princeton University and Hasan Jeffries of Ohio State University — we relive a horrific moment of unethical treatment and deceptive practices that still haunts African-Americans today.
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She’s the most iconic statue in the world. But Lady Liberty wasn’t built for America—and she wasn’t meant to welcome immigrants. Originally designed for Egypt, rejected as too expensive, and almost abandoned in crates on a New York dock, the Statue of Liberty’s journey is as unexpected as it is extraordinary. From her origins as an abolitionist symbol after the Civil War, to the crowdfunding campaign that saved her pedestal, to the forgotten poem that redefined her purpose—this is the real story of how a rejected lighthouse became the global icon of freedom. Discover the untold history behind the statue that almost never was.
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Black History Facts buried by American
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Conversation around the documentary, “Black Indians".
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