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 The television series New York Undercover used the study as the subject of a second-season episode titled "Bad Blood".
 Marvel Comics' limited series Truth: Red, White & Black reinterpreted the Tuskegee Experiment as part of the Weapon Plus program.Black in Action, Entertainment Weekly
 Ralph Ellison in his book Invisible Man makes allusions to the Tuskeegee study.
 In the 1998 film Half Baked, Dave Chappelle's character tells a doctor that gives him marijuana that his grandfather was a part of the Tuskegee experiments.
 Gil Scott-Heron's song "Tuskegee 626"
 On the television show, "House", Dr. Cameron references Tuskegee as a brutal, inhumane study.