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  • The Confab -- Oct. 8, 2010
    October 11, 2010

    This week on the Confab: Debt-collector abuse in the recession; Christine O'Donnell vs. Alvin Greene; Bishop Eddie Long and the news media; the Guatemala syphilis experiment's Tuskegee roots; and Ntozake Shange, Tyler Perry and Madea. Join The Root's deputy editor, Sheryl Huggins Salomon, as she discusses these issues with Senior Editor Teresa Wiltz, Associate Editor Lauren Williams and Washington reporter Cord Jefferson.

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  • The Guatemala Syphilis Experiment's Tuskegee Roots
    by Linda Villarosa on 
    October 2, 2010

    Recent revelations that the U.S. government knowingly infected Central Americans with syphilis in the 1940s have eerie echoes to the infamous 40-year experiment with 400 infected black men in Macon County, Ala. As it turns out, this is no coincidence.

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  • U.S. Apologizes for Infecting Guatemalans With Syphilis
    by Sheryl Huggins Salomon on 
    October 1, 2010

    What most people think happened at Tuskegee did happen in Guatemala in the 1940s: deliberate infections in the name of research.

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