J. Marion Sims has gone down in history as the "Father of Modern Gynecology." Many of his medical achievements came at the cost of the health and well-being of enslaved Black women. He performed ...

As Black sharecroppers in Henry County, Ala., my grandmother and her family faced incredible odds. Had she been born less than a hundred years prior, her birth may have necessitated the interventions ...

In November 1833, people saw stars fall from the sky in Alabama. J.C. Hallman begins his literary nonfiction book, “Say Anarcha,” on a rural Alabama plantation where a young enslaved girl might have ...

A statue of a South Carolina native known as "the father of gynecology" was removed from Central Park in New York on Tuesday. The legacy of Dr. J. Marion Sims — a 19th-century gynecologist who ...

On the grounds of the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala. now stands a grand sculpture known as the “Mothers of Gynecology.” The story of the three women it depicts — and the history of how their ...

One might say the day of reckoning for 19th-century surgeon Dr. J. Marion Sims came five years ago, when a forklift removed his statue from Central Park in New York. Sims, who's been called "the ...

The medical system has historically underestimated women's pain, leading to misdiagnosis and inadequate treatment, and this ...

A worker tosses a strap over the 19th century statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims, Tuesday, April 17, 2018, in New York's Central Park. Sims was known as the father of modern gynecology, but critics say his ...

Anarcha was in labor for 72 hours when Dr. J. Marion Sims went to her bedside to help deliver her baby on the Westscott Plantation located in Montgomery, Alabama. It was a summer day in June of 1845.

New York City’s Public Design Commission voted unanimously on Monday to remove the statue of J. Marion Sims, a 19th century surgeon who conducted experimental operations on female slaves, from its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Father of Modern Gynecology' J. Marion Sims performed dangerous 'experiments' on enslaved Black women without the use of ...