It looks like the Immortal Henrietta Lacks is coming to HBO this spring. This book was one of my favorite reads of 2015; the story shook me in a profound way. As an African American woman I felt like Henrietta could have been one of my ancestors, someone experimented on and stolen from. The story left me sad and angry. The Lacks family never recieved a dime from John Hopkins for the theft; and the book left me with questions about why things like this happens. And left me wondering if they still do. I can't wait to we the movie; I am glad the woman behind the cells is being talked about.
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