The family was poor, and for African Americans living in the Jim Crow era, life was hard. But Henrietta made sure they never wanted for anything. Sunday dinner was a special meal in the Lacks home.

Fanta is one of the world's most popular soft drinks, but its origins are tied to the resource constraints and political ...

author of the 2010 bestseller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Lacks’ story was also the subject of an HBO movie starring Oprah Winfrey. “They treated her like a specimen, like a lab rat ...

But the story of HeLa cells has a twist to it. This cell line that is so prevalent in research was established without the consent of Henrietta Lacks or her family. In 2010, a book titled The Immortal ...

The story came to broader public attention in 2010 with the publishing of Rebecca Skloot’s book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, which was later released as a documentary movie in 2017.

Henrietta Lacks. It’s a name most of us don’t recognize ... “To be able to see where a person comes from, how they lived their life and then see that legacy exponentially blast into our ...

Regarded from the perspective of expanding the knowledge base, there can be little doubt that the discovery and exploitation ...

Family of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were taken for research, settles with company that profited The family of Henrietta Lacks is settling a lawsuit against a biotechnology company it accuses of ...

Henrietta Lacks, known as the "mother of modern medicine," was honored with a statue on the 71st anniversary of her death.

(WRIC) — The Henrietta Lacks Hometown Initiative is calling for drawings created by artists in Southern Virginia that will be used as inspiration to construct a life-size statue of Henrietta Lacks.