The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, July 25, 2021 - a podcast by Prairie Home Productions

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It was on this day in 1972 that Jean Heller of the Associated Press broke the news that the federal government had let hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama go untreated for syphilis for 40 years in the now infamous Tuskegee study.