In this June 8, 2021 photo provided by the Ad Council, Carmen Head Thornton speaks during an interview which is part of an ongoing multimillion-dollar education campaign aiming to encourage confidence in COVID-19 vaccination. Thornton is a granddaughter of Freddie Lee Tyson, a hard-working family man of deep faith who unwittingly became part of the U.S. government’s infamous syphilis experiment on Black men in Tuskegee, Ala., decades ago. ‘’It’s really up to us to take ownership of our health and this story,’’ she says. (Ad Council via AP)