Descendants of the Tuskegee experiment victims are participating in a new documentary to help combat vaccine hesitancy in the Black community. The documentary, entitled Tuskegee Legacy Stories , examines the nature of the Tuskegee experiment by contrasting it to the current scientific climate and addresses misinformation surrounding the 20th-century study. “Knowing that you were denied treatment and that you were lied to would affect anybody,” Carmen Head Thornton, whose grandfather, Freddie Lee Tyson, was a part of the Tuskegee experiment, told NBC Nightly News. “There is a lesson in taking broken pieces and turning it into something that’s effective and supportive. According to the CDC, out of 195 million Americans who have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine, only 10% are Black. But Black Americans are two times more likely to die of the virus than white people. “If you’re using the syphilis study as your rationale for not getting the vaccine, stop doing that,” Thornton...
