KALAMAZOO, MI — The Henrietta Lacks Traveling Museum is making a stop in its creator’s hometown. Curated by Jermaine Jackson, a great nephew of Lacks, the museum tells the history of a woman who’s cell line is responsible for numerous scientific breakthroughs — to include polio and COVID-19 vaccines, cancer […]
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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. The family of Henrietta Lacks, the African American cancer patient whose cells were taken by Johns Hopkins University Hospital without her consent […]