The auditorium for Howard's production Ms Evers' Boys was filled with students, most of whom were upset that they had to attend the play for Freshmen Seminar. (Myself included) However, by the end of the closing scene, many of those same students were glad they had decided to come to the unveiling of a true epic, and chided themselves for ever doubting about coming. (Myself included) Miss Evers' Boys is a tale about a group of four black men who were diagnosed with a crippling disease, called syphilis. These men were treated no better than regular lab rats, and had to undergo many painful surgical experiments. The nurse, Ms. Eunice Evers, was an unwilling part of the Tuskegee Project, and had to witness the pain and discomfort of her patients, many of which were her close friends.

What was most interesting to me about the play was that the Tuskegee Syphilis Project had actually occurred once before. The project had initially been formed to help rural African Americans who had been diagnosed with syphilis to find a cure, but lead to many of the "subjects" dying from the combination of their untreated disease as well as the suffering they had succumbed to for several years, even when a possible cure had been found. Penicillin, a drug that was found to combat syphilis, was withheld from black patients, who continued to be used as experimental subjects until the project had become the attention of several government officials in the 1970s. By that time, only a small fraction of the group had survived.