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Medical exploitation of Black people in America goes far beyond the cells stolen from Henrietta Lacks that produced modern day miracles

  • Written by Deion Scott Hawkins, Assistant Professor of Argumentation & Advocacy, Emerson College
Medical exploitation of Black people in America goes far beyond the cells stolen from Henrietta Lacks that produced modern day miraclesA photo of Henrietta Lacks sits in the living room of her grandson. Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images

In a case that revealed the exploitation of a Black woman beginning in the 1950s and extending for 70 years, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. settled a lawsuit that the estate of Henrietta Lacks had filed against the biotech firm...

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