New York fund to publicly apologize for its role in Tuskegee syphilis study

Milbank Memorial Fund, which covered funeral expenses, to say sorry 50 years after study revealed and halted

Fifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed and halted, an organization that made funeral payments which facilitated the study, the Milbank Memorial Fund, will say sorry in public.

For almost 40 years, government researchers let hundreds of Black men die of syphilis in Alabama so they could study the disease. The fund in New York covered funeral expenses.