Discrimination by the American Medical Association (AMA) against African Americans has been an often denied, open secret,  for decades.  An admission and apology is long over due.  The battle against discrimination by local chapters of the AMA has been waged for many decades.

According to the report,a formal apology will be issued by the AMA for its discriminatory policies preventing blacks from joining the physicians’ group for over a century.

“It is true that what the AMA did historically was awful,” Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society,said to the AP. “There were AMA local chapters that actually had rules against black members well into the late 1960s, and policies that made blacks not feel comfortable well into the 1980s.”

Source
Associated Press