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Descendants of ‘Tuskegee Syphilis Study’ emerging from shadows

Decades later, it’s still hard to grasp what the federal government did to hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama — even if you’re among their descendants, lighting candles in their memory. For 40 years starting in 1932, medical workers in the segregated South withheld treatment for unsuspecting men infected with a sexually transmitted disease […]

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