Lawrence Lacks Sr., a son of Henrietta Lacks who lived ... liver disease Saturday at the Baltimore VA Medical Center.The Northwest Baltimore resident was 88.“We all grew up in Turner Station ...

The Henrietta Lacks Legacy Group, aimed at preserving the history of Lacks and her contributions to medicine, is the June 2025 winner of the Chick-fil-A Everyday Heroes award.

“Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman from Turner Station, could never have imagined that her cells taken without her knowledge in 1951 would revolutionize modern medicine,” said Jones. “This ...

The Henrietta Lacks Legacy Group said in a press release, "The Henrietta Lacks Legacy Group (HLLG) is dedicated to extending ...

Lawrence Lacks Sr., the last-surviving child of Henrietta Lacks, a hospitalized Black woman whose cancer cells were taken by a doctor without her knowledge and consent in 1951 and were later used ...

The Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute is now accepting applications for the prestigious Henrietta Lacks Memorial Award. Created to honor the memory of Henrietta Lacks, a former resident of Turner ...

Lacks’ cells were harvested in 1951, when it was not illegal to do so without a patient’s permission. But lawyers for her family argued that Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., of Waltham ...

Henrietta Lacks, born Loretta Pleasant in 1920 an African American woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951 has become the subject of books, speeches and a 2017 Movie, The Immortal Life of ...

A poor tobacco farmer from southern Virginia, Lacks got married and moved with her husband to Turner Station, a historically Black community outside Baltimore.

Servant Courtney Speed puts the “speed” in her name. Speed on Saturday led a group of people through the Turner Station neighborhood in Baltimore County as attendees tried to keep up with the ...

BALTIMORE — More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a ...