Need a History Lesson on J. Marion Sims?

In February 2017 East Harlem Preservation held an in-studio discussion at Manhattan Neighborhood Network's El Barrio Firehouse Community Media Center about ongoing efforts to remove the controversial statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims from its Fifth Avenue location.

“East Harlem Preservation Panelists

Harriet A. Washington, author of “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present” (2007)

Lynn Roberts, PhD, Assistant Professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Diane Collier, Chair of Community Board 11

Viola Plummer, member of the December 12th Movement and co-founder of the Harriet Tubman-Fannie Lou Hamer Women’s Collective”