Beginning in 1946 through 1948, an experiment funded and conducted by the United States' National Institutes of Health (NIH), infecting those in the study without their knowledge with syphilis and, in some...
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Tuskegee, Ala. (March 21, 2009) -- One of the longest serving presidents in higher education, Benjamin F. Payton of Tuskegee University, has announced his plans to retire.
Payton announced to the...
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Tuskegee, Ala., (Dec. 4, 2008) -- The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference issued a formal apology to Tuskegee University today, citing the quality of officiating as "distressingly poor," in response to an...
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Re-enactors at Moton Field work on the set of a documentary about the military careers and history of the Tuskegee Airmen. The National Park Service will host a ribbon cutting for the Tuskegee Airmen National...
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Interesting insights from Jonah Goldberg. Reason # 124 why it’simportant to either a) know your history or b) do your own research:turns out that no one was actually infected with syphilis at Tuskegee, but theywere lied to about the ‘treatment’ they were receiving....
Sen. Pat Roberts is expected to be among the speakers next week for the 2008
United Black Republican Coalition convention that will be held at the Hyatt
Regency Wichita.
The two-day event, titled "Economic Empowerment Through the Political
Process," begins May 16 with...
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Once bitten, twice shy, as they say."In 1982, transplant surgeon Dr. Clive Callender and his colleagues sat down to took a look at African-American organ donation numbers, and they were grim.
While blacks represented about 12 percent of the U.S. population, they represented...