As the nation prepares to start inoculating Americans for COVID-19, public health experts worry that many people distrust the vaccine.
The problem is especially serious among African-Americans. During slavery and the Jim Crow era, Blacks were subjected to medical experiments without their consent, and after death their bodies were stolen from graves for use in medical schools in Richmond and Charlottesville.
A new book details those abuses and one modern-day nightmare at the Medical College of Virginia.