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Public health professor hosts descendants of Tuskegee study subjects on talk show

By Olivia Borgula In a Zoom discussion on the evening of Feb. 23, Omar Neal, a former mayor of Tuskegee, Alabama, addressed Carmen Thornton, asking “Did you have any inclination at all of what this was, and the magnitude of what had taken place to your grandfather?”  Thornton’s grandfather was a subject in the United States Public Health Service syphilis study conducted at Tuskegee. Neal … Continue reading Public health professor hosts descendants of Tuskegee study subjects on talk show

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Professors, researcher talk gentrification’s lasting impacts on Black communities during webinar

by Brittany N. Gaddy The Colvin Institute of Real Estate held a webinar Wednesday for the University of Maryland community about gentrification and the deracination of the Black community in Harlem, New York and Washington as a part of the institute’s fall lecture series. Willow Lung-Amam, an associate professor of the urban studies and planning program and the director of community development for the National … Continue reading Professors, researcher talk gentrification’s lasting impacts on Black communities during webinar

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