Henrietta Lacks Settlement Is a “Form of Reparations” for Biomedical Racism

“What happened to Henrietta Lacks didn’t just happen to her,” says professor Dorothy Roberts.

The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black cancer patient whose cells were taken by Johns Hopkins University Hospital without her consent in 1951, has reached a deal over the unethical use of her cells with pharmaceutical company Thermo Fisher Scientific. Henrietta Lacks’s family has denounced the racist medical system that allowed the biotech company to make billions in profit from the “HeLa” cell...

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