Tag: organs

Shocking! The Racist History Behind the Smithsonian’s Black Brain Collection

WASHINGTON, DC – November 11: Michelle Farris and her husband Tim Farris look at tombstones in the Mt. Zion Cemetery, where her great great grandmother’s brother Moses Boone is buried, in Washington, DC on November 11, 2023. When Boone, then a two-year-old, died of tuberculosis his brain was taken for the “racial brain collection” at […]

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Shocking! The Smithsonian Collected Black People’s Brains for This Study

WASHINGTON, DC – November 11: Michelle Farris and her husband Tim Farris look at tombstones in the Mt. Zion Cemetery, where her great great grandmother’s brother Moses Boone is buried, in Washington, DC on November 11, 2023. When Boone, then a two-year-old, died of tuberculosis his brain was taken for the “racial brain collection” at […]

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