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Accolades. it really is remarkable when you juxtapose her social circumstances with the gift that her cells have provided. and just because people will be slightly concerned, obviously, about that harvesting, is this something that is completely confined to the past decades and decades ago now? the one important thing i can share with you is that we have to understand the history. at the time that henrietta lacks underwent her surgery informed consent really hadn't been invented, and we can really attribute those kinds of scenarios that she experienced as a leverage that allowed us to enter a ...

This is injustice that america as a whole has needed to address. >> that's right. good to see you this morning, mehdi. >> she was chronicled in that hbo movie a few years ago starring oprah winfrey. now the family is suing the biotech company like you said. they say they unfairly made billions while her family got nothing which is outrageous when you think about it. i'll be talking to henrietta's grandson along with benjamin crump. also joining me is congresswoman sherrice davis. we think of certain demographics and native-americans are also impacted by this voter suppression across the countr...

The wrongful act and then continue to benefit at the peril of the victim and the victim here is henrietta lacks and her family who as you stated contributed so much to modern medicine. her immortal cells are the cornerstone of mod were medicine. these pharmaceutical companies have made billions upon billions of dollars and her family, her legacy, they haven't received one red cent in compensation and where is the equity? where is the fairness and justice in that? >> and where is the morality, quite frankly, your grandmother's story is frequently referenced when it comes to distrust of black pe...

Being tortured to death, mr. corporations made a pledge, a commitment to social justice. >> right. >> many of those were pharmaceutical companies, well, i will submit henrietta lacks self equally but not greater than george floyd. so if you want to honor your commitment to social justice, then do right by henrietta lacks finally and henrietta. she has given so much to the world. how about the world try to give something to her and her family as she looks down from heaven saying, what about my family? >> so, the thermo scientific isn't the only company that benefitted from her cells. so many ot...

However, we feel as attorney sieinger said, they won't be around longer, we feel over 200 corporations have profited over a billion dollars, tiffany, in using the healer cells that are henrietta lacks' genetic makeup. it is very arguable, if you've ever gotten a vaccine of any kind in the last 70 years, then you have a little henrietta in you, too. >> while, well, i am honored to have a little henrietta in me. i want you to know, the medical community has a long, extensive record of these times of experimental procedures on black people. so on another day, we'll have to talk about experiments ...