Henrietta

Moments before she left, Henrietta adorned herself in an array of borrowed and collected jewelry. Draped across her neck was a Tiffany cross belonging to her mother. On her hand were several separate and distinctive gemmed bands, including…

In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a Black mother of five who was dying of cervical cancer, went to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for treatment.Without her knowledge or consent, doctors removed a sample of cells from the tumor in her cervix.…

The estate of Henrietta Lacks sued a biotechnology company on Monday, accusing it of selling cells that doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took from the Black woman in 1951 without her knowledge or consent as part of "a racially unjust…