A mixed-media painting called “Mothers of Gynecology," part of the exhibit Call and Response: A Narrative of Reverence to our Foremothers and Gynecology. For more than a century, Dr. James Marion Sims ...

Michelle Browder wants to make sure Feb. 28 is etched in history-- a day that will be steeped in truth and shrouded in respect. The date is significant to Browder. Over the years, the artist and ...

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.

On the grounds of the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala. now stands a grand sculpture known as the “Mothers of Gynecology.” The story of the three women it depicts — and the history of how their ...

19th century Montgomery physician J. Marion Sims is often credited as the father of modern gynecology for developing new tools and techniques for women’s health that are still used today. Often ...

The Department of Surgery continues its “Beyond the Knife” series focused on surgery’s role in fighting systemic racism with its second annual Anti-Racism and Health Equity event on Feb. 10. Deirdre ...

After unveiling her groundbreaking monument last Mother’s Day, artist Michelle Browder is expanding upon her work around the “Mothers of Gynecology,” with the opening of a museum and clinic built in ...

Mothers of Gynecology, a statue honoring enslaved Black women who were unwilling subjects in experiments that resulted in medical advances by Michelle Browder in Montgomery, Ala. (Cristela Guerra) ...

When Dr. Lucy Lomas learned about the disturbing role of slavery in the origins of her medical specialty, gynecology, she said she felt “heaviness and heartache,” some of which she still carries with ...

A sallow light rises over the land at the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of the most celebrated movies of the 20th century. Stanley Kubrick’s shot pulls in on a band of furry man-apes gathering ...

Birth professionals from around the country gathered in Montgomery, Ala., to heal, to learn and to honor the lives and sacrifices of three women: Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey, the Mothers of Gynecology.