Miss Evers' Boys.

Howard University's Department of Fine Arts put on a play this past week entitled "Miss Evers' Boys." The play was about four men, their nurse, Miss Evers, and the 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments. Syphilis was a major problem affecting many African American males. These four friends, Willie, Hodman, Caleb, and Ben, all found out that they had it. Nurse Evers became their nurse and took as much care of them as she could. They ended up being a part of the experiment, but were not allowed to get penicillin when the prescriptions were given out. Miss Evers had a hard time trying to figure out how to explain to her "boys" why exactly they couldn't get the penicillin, when that's what could keep them alive. The play was extremely compelling and I would definitely recommend it to anyway.