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Over 880 people attended the 13th Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture on Saturday, Oct. 7, at The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Turner Auditorium.“Our family has been w
The front of the Wills Memorial Building, part of Bristol University (Archive/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A statue of a black woman whose cells led to crucial medical advances is to be displayed at a university. The artwork of Henrietta Lacks will be the first public sculpture of a black woman made by a black woman in the UK. It will be unveiled at the University of Bristol later this year.
A statue of a black woman whose cells led to crucial medical advances is to be displayed at a university. The artwork of Henrietta Lacks will be the first public sculpture of a black woman made by a black woman in the UK. It will be unveiled at the University of Bristol later this year. Artist Helen Wilson Roe at the unveiling of her portrait of Henrietta Lacks, which is currently on display at the University of Bristol (Bhagesh Sachania Photography/University of Bristol/PA). Lacks, a young mother born in 1920 in the US, died from an aggressive form of cervical cancer in 1951 but a sample of ...