“There couldn’t have been a more fitting day for her to have justice, for her family to have relief,” Henrietta’s grandson Alfred Lacks Carter Jr. said, according to The Associated Press.

A US biotechnology company has reached a settlement with the family of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used for groundbreaking medical research without her consent.

“There couldn’t have been a more fitting day for her to have justice, for her family to have relief,” Carter said. “It was a long fight — over 70 years — and Henrietta Lacks gets her ...

The family was poor, and for African Americans living in the Jim Crow era, life was hard. But Henrietta made sure they never wanted for anything. Sunday dinner was a special meal in the Lacks home.

“The exploitation of Henrietta Lacks represents the unfortunately ... In a brief filed in support of the Lacks family, attorneys advocating for civil rights, women’s rights and health care ...

Young mother Henrietta Lacks died of cancer in 1951, but her “immortal cells” live on today, fueling countless medical ...

Henrietta Lacks, a poor African American tobacco farmer ... the doctors did not ask for permission or consent from her or the family, which was not uncommon at the time. Her family were not ...

The artwork of Henrietta Lacks is the first public sculpture of a black woman made by a black woman in the UK. It was unveiled at the University of Bristol by members of Mrs Lacks’s family who ...

In early 1951, a woman named Henrietta Lacks visited the “colored ward ... Yet, Henrietta and her family never gave consent for any of this. Her family was not informed or compensated.

Family of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were taken for research, settles with company that profited The family of Henrietta Lacks is settling a lawsuit against a biotechnology company it accuses of ...

But Skloot also explores the story’s negative aspects, including the removal of the cells without Henrietta Lacks’s knowledge, the fact that her family was not told about the cells for two decades, ...