As with many things these days, there is a lot of misinformation, skepticism, and conspiracy theories surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine. However, inside the Black community, concerns about receiving the vaccine are based on actual events from the past. There’s the Tuskegee Syphilis study where hundreds of African American men from Alabama were forced to suffer from untreated syphilis as the government withheld treatment to see the outcome. Then there’s the story of Henrietta Lacks whose cells were stolen and used for medical research and the testing of AIDS drugs on Black foster children in the 1980s, all still fresh in many minds.