The next phase of capital improvements at Oak Park and River Forest High School would focus on the arts, especially music and ...

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.

Henrietta Lacks’ cells revolutionized medicine, aiding vaccine development and advancing the understanding of cancer and other diseases. Some countries, including the 'Dirty 15' percent, could ...

Loudoun County’s 99 th school honored its namesake Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose fight with cancer made many modern medical breakthroughs possible, during a dedication ceremony Tuesday morning.

More than a decade after the publication of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” the 2010 bestseller that first told her extraordinary story, the sharecropper-turned shipyard worker who died in ...

Henrietta Lacks Elementary School, the division’s 99 th school, opens this fall to over 800 students in kindergarten through second grade. The 115,000-square-foot building will have 12 kindergarten ...

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.

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.