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Henrietta Lacks: Biography, Cervical Cancer Patient, HeLa Cells
Biography via Yahoo News· 3 months agoHenrietta Lacks, the subject of ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ book and movie, is the source...
Henrietta Lacks’ family settles lawsuit with a biotech company that used her cells without consent
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 9 months agoMore than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells...
Family of Henrietta Lacks settles lawsuit with biotech giant, lawyer says
CBS News via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells were used without permission to form the...
Family of Henrietta Lacks celebrates settlement of HeLa cell lawsuit against biotech giant
Baltimore Sun via Yahoo Finance· 9 months agoThe family of Henrietta Lacks agreed Monday to settle its lawsuit against Thermo Fisher Scientific,...
Estate of Henrietta Lacks reaches settlement with biotech company for nonconsensual use of her cells...
CNN via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells have been used for scientific research for...
CBC introduces law to posthumously award Henrietta Lacks with Congressional Gold Medal
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 11 months ago“It is the highest honor that we can bestow on a citizen from the U.S. Congress,” said CBC Chairman...
Judge weighs motion to dismiss Henrietta Lacks’ family lawsuit over unauthorized use of her cells
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBiotechnology company Thermo Fisher Scientific has requested that the lawsuit brought by the family...
Visual arts: Wexner summer exhibit examines Black love, Black life with hints of Africana
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTo be a Black, LGBTQ artist in 21st century America must be many things: complicated, textured,...
Everything’s Political, Including Your Body
Capital B via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoWelcome back to Everything’s Political, Capital B’s news, culture, and politics newsletter! Every Thursday, I’ll take a look at recent stories that seem...
A Miscarriage, a Grand Jury, and the Policing of Black Women’s Bodies
Capital B via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe case of a Black woman in Ohio who’s been charged after a miscarriage confirms reproductive activists’ fears in a post-Roe era: that women’s pregnancies, especially Black women, would be ...