Henrietta Lacks

BALTIMORE (AP) - Johns Hopkins University and the family of Henrietta Lacks say a new building on the school's campus in East Baltimore will be named…

SOUTH BOSTON, Va. (AP) - A Virginia state board tasked with developing plans for a cancer research and treatment center is set to convene for the first…

WASHINGTON (AP) - A portrait of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were taken without her consent and widely used in groundbreaking research, will be installed…

DUNDALK, Md. (AP) - Baltimore County is honoring Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cancer cells continue to have an impact on medicine more than 60 years…

BALTIMORE (AP) - The son of Henrietta Lacks is seeking compensation for the unauthorized use of his mother's cells in scientific research since her 1951…

Henrietta Lacks may not be a household name, but this African American woman who died of cancer in 1951 has probably touched your life. Delmarva Public…