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Black History goes beyond the month of February, and an exhibit dedicated to a woman whose contributions to medicine will live on forever sits on the campus of Kalamazoo College.
Formerly known as the Dean’s Council Diversity Excellence in Medicine Endowed Scholarship, the scholarship will honor Henrietta Lacks’ contributions to science and medicine.
Not only was statue of her dedicated today in downtown Roanoke across from the municipal building - this is also "Henrietta Lacks Day," across the Commonwealth noted Roanoke Mayor Sherman Lea Senior. Unique cancer cells harvested from Lacks, who died in 1951, are still being used for research today. Lea also noted that while the