Statue of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells shaped modern medicine, to be erected in Roanoke
The bronze statue will be erected in October 2023 and will be placed in Henrietta Lacks Plaza, which was formerly called Lee Plaza.
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The bronze statue will be erected in October 2023 and will be placed in Henrietta Lacks Plaza, which was formerly called Lee Plaza.
Lacks’ cells were taken from her body without her permission and used for numerous medical advances
(ROANOKE, Va.) — A bronze statue honoring Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose “immortal” cells have resulted in countless medical breakthroughs, will be built in her birthplace of Roanoke, Virginia. Artist Bryce Cobbs unveiled a life-sized preliminary drawing of Lacks in a ceremony announcing the statue […]
Henrietta Lacks, the Baltimore woman whose HeLa cells were taken without her consent by Johns Hopkins in 1951, is being honored with a statue in her Roanoke birthplace.
On Tuesday, the public is invited to attend an event to check out the drawing, to hear an update on the virtual reality project chronicling Black Roanoke history and to