New parents looking for baby formula are likely to find empty shelves these days.

Everyone's throwing blame for the shortage, which is causing infant deaths and illness.

But for black parents, baby formula issues have a long, troubling history.

This is two-minute black history, what you didn't learn in Skrull.

When the fault sisters were born in 1946, they became instant celebrities.

They were the first recorded identical quadruplets in the world, and though they were perfectly

healthy, what ultimately happened to them is downright sickening.

The white doctor who delivered them lied to their father and took advantage of their

mother's inability to hear or speak.

He named the girls after his own family members and injected them with dangerously high levels

of vitamin C. Then he did something that still traumatizes black mothers today.

Acting as the girls' legal representative, the doctor cut deals with baby formula companies

thirsty to reach black women.

Only a few generations removed from serving as wet nurses for white women while their

own children suffered.

Black women were taught to believe they were bad mothers if they didn't use baby formula.

Once black women became major consumers of formula, the companies flipped the script.

They used aggressive marketing depicting black women who used baby formula as lazy or

unnatural mothers.

Today, black women face criticism no matter what they do.

Formula shortages affect black parents the hardest.

In order to move towards the future, you've got to look to the past.

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