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 ...

New York City has removed a statue of J. Marion Sims, a 19th-century gynecologist who experimented on enslaved women, from a pedestal in Central Park. The statue will be moved to a cemetery in ...

You may have heard of Dr. J. Marion Sims, the so-called “father of modern gynecology.” It’s less likely you know the “mothers of gynecology.” In the mid-1800s in Montgomery, Ala., Sims conducted ...

Pieced together from a mixture of recycled copper, brass and bronze metals and standing nearly 15 feet tall, a new monument in Montgomery, Alabama, honors the legacy of three enslaved women whose ...

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.

Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey, or the mothers, as Montgomery artist Michelle Browder calls them, will finally get some visible recognition on May 9, in the place where they unwittingly became a part of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A total of 82.1% of women undergoing cesarean delivery received neuraxial labor analgesia in situ. General ...