Regina Vincent-Williams, a local poet, writer, and motivational speaker and president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, knows all too well the stigma minorities have against vaccines and other government-led medical projects.
Vincent-Williams said the Tuskegee tests left a lasting scar on many Black people that caused a rift between the racial group and government and medical experts. For a long time, there have been disparities in health and in our ability of getting health coverage, Vincent-Williams said. There have been shown to be health disparities in terms of how we re diagnosed, what doctors we go to and what kinds of procedures we get and what kind of medicine we are prescribed.