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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

"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." ...

The legal settlement over the unauthorized, unjustified harvesting and distribution of Henrietta Lacks’ unique cancerous DNA cells began in Baltimore. You may have heard that a 31-year-old wife ...

Henrietta Lacks’ cells revolutionized medicine, ... HeLa legacy lives on at Vancouver's Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School. Posted: March 31, 2025 | Last updated: ...

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 ...

Henrietta Lacks Elementary and Watson Mountain Middle School were built to lower electricity costs with solar panels on the roof and automatic lights that shut off when classrooms are empty.

Henrietta Lacks, often called the ‘Mother of Modern Medicine,’ has left a legacy that transcends generations and continues to save millions of lives. She was born in Roanoke on Aug. 1, 1920 ...

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 ...