Today, President Biden referenced "Tuskegee Airmen" in his comments about black people's reluctance to get the COVID vaccination. We need to clear the air. The so-called Tuskegee Experiment had absolutely nothing to do with the Tuskegee Airmen. That was just a stupid mistake made by our Commander-in-chief and possibly misinformed by his staffers.

But further, the so-called Tuskegee Experiment was not conducted by Tuskegee Institute, It was conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service, a forerunner of the CDC. Of course, it was federal money, and very likely that HBCU's with medical programs had a small part in it, because that is the nature of federally funded programs.

A good book to read on the subject is Harriet Washington's Medical Apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present.