Articles about Honorary Awards and Ceremonies
- Henrietta Lacks’ family appointed World Health Organization Goodwill Ambassadors for Cervical Cancer Elimination
World Health Organization, October 16, 2022 - Women’s Hall of Fame honors Aretha Franklin, Toni Morrison, Henrietta Lacks among othersChicago Sun Times, December 9, 2020
- Henrietta Lacks: A centennial celebration
World Health Organization, November 15, 2020 - Hopkins honors Henrietta Lacks' 100th birthday
The Johns Hopkins Newsletter, November 6, 2020 - Johns Hopkins To Name New Research Building After Henrietta Lacks
CBS Baltimore, October 6, 2018 - Henrietta Lacks, Immortalized
JSTOR Daily, May 17, 2018 - 5 Contributions HeLa Cells Have Made to Science
Technology Networks, June 13, 2018 - Listen to the human stories, the Henrietta Lacks family tells scientistsStanford Medicine, April 24, 2018
- Cancer center would honor ‘immortal’ Henrietta Lacks
Capital News Service, March 16, 2018 - Legislature honors legacy of Henrietta Lacks
Gazette-Virginian, March 1, 2018
Databases for Articles
- Opposing ViewpointsArticles from magazines, newspapers, journals, pamphlets, primary source documents and other sources of information on controversial topics
- Science DirectLarge collection of science, technology and medicine in full-text (current + last 9 years) and bibliographic information
- Gale Literary SourcesFormerly known as Literature Resource Center. Articles on critical analysis, bibliographies, and biographies of authors from many literary disciplines and countries.
- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Articles on any subject. This is a good place to start.
- Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Articles and scholarly essays, historical newspaper articles, primary sources, and timelines you can use for African American topics.
News Articles in Online Magazines and Newspapers, 2020 - Present
- Roland Pattillo helped keep Henrietta Lacks' story alive. It's key to his legacy
NPR, November 14, 2023 - Remembering Dr. Roland Pattillo and his quest to honor the memory of Henrietta LacksNPR, November 13, 2023
- What does the historic settlement won by Henrietta Lacks’s family mean for others?
Science, August 7, 2023 - How the ‘groundbreaking’ Henrietta Lacks settlement could change research
Nature, August 4, 2023 - Henrietta Lacks and her legacy
The Tufts Daily, April 27, 2023 - Do ‘Immortal’ Women Owe Us Their Cells: The Case of Henrietta Lacks
Stockton University, March 2, 2023 - Henrietta Lacks' hometown will build statue of her where Robert E. Lee sculpture once stood
ABC News, December 19, 2022 - Johns Hopkins University unveils a transparent design for the new Henrietta Lacks Research Building
The Architect's Newspaper, November 14, 2022 - Henrietta Lacks walking tour serves as showcase of her life, community
Baltimore Sun, October 2, 2022 - How Henrietta Lacks Changed My View of Human Cells as a Physicist
National Institute of Standards and Technology, June 8, 2022 - Bill aims to honor Henrietta Lacks with Congressional Gold Medal
WFXR, March 28, 2022 - Mfume pushes for Henrietta Lacks to receive Congressional Gold Medal
WBAL TV, March 16, 2022 - South Boston's Constitution Square chosen as location for Henrietta Lacks statue
Gazette-Virginian, March 15, 2022 - ‘It blows my mind’: Lost to history, Virginia home of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells transformed medicine, is demolished
Baltimore Sun, February 14, 2022 - Henrietta Lacks Statue, Bristol, England
Atlas Obscura, January 7, 2022 - Henrietta Lacks: 'Mother' of modern medicine honoured
BBC News, October 13, 2021 - Science Needs to Face Up to Its Racist History
Scientific American, March 12, 2021 - Henrietta Lacks’ Turner Station home in Baltimore County slated for rehab
Baltimore Sun, February 13, 2021 - U.S. Senate passes the Henrietta Lacks Enhancing Cancer Research Act
WMAR, December 16, 2020 - The young woman who saved millions of lives without knowing
BBC Future, November 24, 2020 - Wealthy funder pays reparations for use of HeLa cells
Nature, October 29, 2020 - Henrietta Lacks: science must right a historical wrong
Nature, September 1, 2020 - Henrietta Lacks and Her Remarkable Cells Will Finally See Some Payback
Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2020 - FDA Versus Our Own Stem Cells
Regulatory Review, April 7, 2020 - The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks
from WFXRtv.com, February 18, 2020
Older Articles (1997 - 2019)
- Henrietta Lacks
Mic, May 2, 2019 - A Painting of Henrietta Lacks Is Now in The National Portrait Gallery, And It's About Time
Science Alert, Aug. 21, 2018 - Who owns Henrietta Lacks' cells?
Marketplace, July 9, 2018 - Can the ‘immortal cells’ of Henrietta Lacks sue for their own rights?
Washington Post, June 25, 2018 - The Complicated Legacy of Henrietta Lacks
From Johns Hopkins Medicine, May 13, 2016 - Henrietta Lacks biographer Rebecca Skloot responds to US parent over 'porn' allegation
from The Guardian, September 9, 2015 - A Family Consents to a Medical Gift, 62 Years Later
from New York Times, August 7, 2013 - A Culture of Consent
from Nature, June 26, 2013 - German lab apologizes for publishing the genome of ‘immortal’ woman’s cell linefrom Washington Post, April 1, 2013
- HeLa-cious coverage: Media overlook ethical angles of Henrietta Lacks storyfrom Columbia Journalism Review, March 28, 2013
- A New Chapter In The Story Of Henrietta Lacks
from NPR, March 26, 2013 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel (by Rebecca Skloot)from New York Times, March 24, 2013
- The Immortal, Shattered Cells of Henrietta Lacks
from the Atlantic, March 15, 2013 - Hear Yeasayer's Dubby 'Henrietta,' Get the Story Behind the Track
from Spin, May 16, 2012 - Rebecca Skloot's unconventional path to prizewinning 'Henrietta Lacks'
from the Oregonian, May 12, 2012 - Doctors' Attitudes About Race Can Affect Your Health
BET, May 9, 2012 - Cell case still unsettling
from Albany Times-Union, April 26, 2012 - Life, Monetized
from The American Prospect, November 28, 2011 - How Rebecca Skloot Built The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
from The Open Notebook. November 22nd, 2011 - Press Release: 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' wins best book award from National Academies
Public release date: 15-Sep-2011 from National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine - 'Immortal' Cells Of Henrietta Lacks Live On In LabsDecember 13, 2010 NPR report from Talk of the Nation. Also available as a 30 minute audio file.
- Henrietta Lacks: the mother of modern medicinefrom Guardian, June 23, 2010
- Five Reasons Henrietta Lacks is the Most Important Woman in Medical History
from Popular Science, May 5, 2010 - Where’d You Go With My DNA?from New York Times, April 24, 2010
- A Lasting Gift to Medicine That Wasn’t Really a Giftfrom New York Times, February 1, 2010
- How One Woman's Cells Changed Medicine
from ABC News, January 31, 2010 - Henrietta's DanceApril, 2000 article by Rebecca Skloot. From Johns Hopkins Magazine:
- Her cells made her immortal
from Baltimore Sun, March 18, 1997