J. Marion Sims has gone down in history as the "Father of Modern Gynecology." Many of his medical achievements came at the cost of the health and well-being of enslaved Black women. He performed ...

In November 1833, people saw stars fall from the sky in Alabama. J.C. Hallman begins his literary nonfiction book, “Say Anarcha,” on a rural Alabama plantation where a young enslaved girl might have ...

In Dr. J. Marion Sims's lifetime, the South Carolina native — who practiced in central Alabama and Montgomery before moving his career to New York and Europe — was touted as a medical genius, ...

The statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims, is removed by a crane on Tuesday, April 17, 2018, in New York’s Central Park. (Mark Lennihan / AP Photo) When I wrote a cover ­story about the so-called “father of ...

Anarcha was in labor for 72 hours when Dr. J. Marion Sims went to her bedside to help deliver her baby on the Westscott Plantation located in Montgomery, Alabama. It was a summer day in June of 1845.

As Black sharecroppers in Henry County, Ala., my grandmother and her family faced incredible odds. Had she been born less than a hundred years prior, her birth may have necessitated the interventions ...

One might say the day of reckoning for 19th-century surgeon Dr. J. Marion Sims came five years ago, when a forklift removed his statue from Central Park in New York. Sims, who's been called "the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Father of Modern Gynecology' J. Marion Sims performed dangerous 'experiments' on enslaved Black women without the use of ...

In 2018, after a series of protests, New York City's Public Design Commission voted unanimously to remove a statue of J. Marion Sims from Central Park. Sims has gone down in history as the "Father of ...