Henrietta Lacks Would Have Been 100 Years Old Today – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

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Here are my previous posts about her:

VIDEO: “THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS: OFFICIAL TRAILER”

VIDEO: FILM ON HENRIETTA LACKS COMING OUT IN APRIL

HERE’S THE VIDEO TED-ED SHOULD HAVE MADE ABOUT HENRIETTA LACKS

DISAPPOINTING NEW TED-ED VIDEO & LESSON ON HENRIETTA LACKS

BEYOND JUST A CELLS UNIT: What My Science Students Learned from the Story of Henrietta Lacks is from ReThinking Schools.

A federal cancer research bill inspired by the late Henrietta Lacks of Turner Station — whose cells were taken without consent at Hopkins for medical research — won final approval.https://t.co/Y1hJteR7Bf

— Pamela Wood ☀️ (@pwoodreporter) December 19, 2020

A life-size statue of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose cancer cells were taken without her consent and were used for medical research, will be placed in a plaza previously named after the Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Roanoke, Virginia. https://t.co/QaYbC60Std

— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 20, 2022

Congressional Black Caucus members on Capitol Hill have nominated Henrietta Lacks for a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal for her contributions to modern medicine.

Read more. 👇🏾https://t.co/YjRfeGdrsb

— theGrio.com (@theGrio) June 16, 2023

Henrietta Lacks’ family reaches historic settlement, wins compensation for her stolen cells is from The Baltimore Banner.

TED-Ed Has Published This Spanish-Language Video About Henrietta Lacks, Which May Or May Not Be Better Than Their Terrible English Version

Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks' estate over use of her 'stolen' cells to advance medicine

apnews.com/article/henr…

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— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) February 26, 2026 at 9:00 PM