A photo of Henrietta Lacks displayed in the living room of her grandson Ron Lacks. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The family of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells, known as HeLa ...

Henrietta Lacks, a Black Maryland patient who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1951, had her cells collected during a biopsy without her consent. The descendants of Henrietta is now suing ...

Henrietta Lacks’ family recently settled their lawsuit with the biotechnology company that kept and used her cancer cells without her consent. “Members of the family of Henrietta Lacks and Thermo ...

Leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus, civil rights attorney Ben Crump and the family of Henrietta Lacks — whose cells, known as HeLa cells, were stolen and harvested without her consent in the ...

The family of a Black woman whose biopsied cancer cells have been used in medical research without her consent for decades just scored a major victory in their fight for justice. On May 20, a federal ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. ABC7 was joined by special guests head of an event Saturday at Imani Village promoting cancer prevention and more representation for Black ...

Alfred Lacks-Carter Jr., whose late grandmother, Henrietta Lacks’, cancer cell line led to treatments for COVID-19, AIDS, polio, cancer and other illnesses, wants to educate more people on the legacy ...

Tuesday, March 8, 2022, marks International Women’s Day, a holiday to celebrate the contributions of women across the globe. Many notable women have worked to advance cancer research with the ultimate ...

An excavator’s claw no one in local history circles saw coming leveled a house that records say was once the home of Henrietta Lacks, the Roanoke-born woman described as the mother of modern medicine.

Dr. Roland Pattillo and his wife Pat O'Flynn Pattillo paid for Henrietta Lacks' permanent headstone, a smooth, substantial block of pink granite. It sits in the shape of a hardcover book. Henrietta ...

Rep. Kweisi Mfume filed legislation Tuesday to posthumously award a Congressional Gold Medal to the late Henrietta Lacks, a Baltimore County woman whose cells were used for medical research without ...