Until the Well Runs Dry: Medicine & Exploitation - film + discussion

This is an astonishing film! Check out the comments from the last time we showed it! ---> (LINK (https://www.meetup.com/DC-Black-Film-Media-Club/events/150086792/))
For more references, Google - grave robbing, medical dissection, Chris Baker, and VCU!

Join BloomBars for the shocking story of the involvement of U.S. medical colleges in illegal grave robbing of Black cemeteries...

The screening will be followed by audience discussion and Q&A.

*Suggested Donation: $10. Proceeds support BloomBars. Free organic popcorn.

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Until the Well Runs Dry: Medicine and the Exploitation of Black Bodies (2011, 51 min), by Shawn Utsey, Ph.D. – chronicles the involvement of well-known medical colleges in the practice of illegal grave robbing of Black cemeteries during the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1800’s, medical colleges in the United States encouraged the practice of grave-robbing Black cemeteries for purposes of medical dissection. Many in academia regarded blacks as inferior and expendable in the interest of medical study. Dr. Utsey makes the case that much of the historical mistrust of African-Americans towards the medical profession dates to this history of grave robbing, and other infamous incidents, such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=017IbQNPmQk

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