Lacks' legacy is living on, not only through her cells, but through places like Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School, where students have chosen to go into the medical field.

Emma Metzger won the 4th annual contest. and a $1,500 prize. She wrote and delivered an essay about Henrietta Lacks, whose cells are credited with helping scientists develop innovations in vaccines.

KALAMAZOO, MI -- A traveling exhibit on Henrietta Lacks is coming to Kalamazoo Public Schools’ four high schools. At their Dec. 8 meeting, the KPS Board approved a $2,400 contract to show the ...

"Henrietta Lacks August 1, 1920 - October 4, 1951" ... "I mean, he loved seeing the high school students that got the scholarship. And one of them graduated from Morehouse." ...

KGW-TV Portland 'Honoring her story': HeLa legacy lives on at Vancouver's Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School. Posted: March 31, 2025 | Last updated: March 31, 2025 ...

Lacks, a Black mother in Baltimore, died from cervical cancer in 1951. Her tumor cells, taken without her knowledge, became the first successful "immortal" cell line, and used for medical research.

Loudoun County Public Schools named a primary school after Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman who’s had a lasting medical impact on the world. The district gathered to honor Lacks in a ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells have been used for scientific research for decades, reached a settlement Tuesday with the biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific, the ...

The complex scientific, racial and social issues surrounding the “immortal cells” of Henrietta Lacks will be explored by members of her family when they speak at UB’s sixth annual conference on ...