Sunday, 7/20/2025, 8:30am - Like It Is

Harriett Washington is the author of Medical Apartheid. The book examines the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present. Washington’s book provides a comprehensive and disturbing historical account of medical experimentation and abuse targeting African Americans. The book reveals how, from the era of slavery through present day, Black individuals were frequently used as unwitting subjects of medical experiments without their knowledge of consent.