A group of Black people seated around a long rehearsal table. There are scripts and water bottles scattered about. Several of them are masked. In the near foreground, a woman with close-trimmed blonde hair, wearing a green sweater and gold hoop earrings, with her hand held in front of her, appears to have just been making a point.

In 1932, Green Adair was one of 399 Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, just east of Montgomery, who tested positive for “bad blood.” He and over 600 other Black men were deceived by the U.S. Public Health Service and enlisted to participate in a study originally called the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the […]

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