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Henrietta Lacks’ family gets justice; Professional hater targets grants for Black business women; Facebook pulls news in Canada; Online porn privacy update in Utah and Arkansas, Attenzione! New TikTok milkshake duck just dropped; Uber CEO has no idea how much Ubers cost – NEWSCAST

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Doctors at John Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks' cervical cells without her knowledge or consent before she died of cervical cancer. Lawyers for her family say that the biotechnology company, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc continued to commercialize these results long after their origins became well known. The case highlights the reality of medical racism in the United States.

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