Articles about Honorary Awards and Ceremonies
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Women’s Hall of Fame honors Aretha Franklin, Toni Morrison, Henrietta Lacks among othersChicago Sun Times, December 9, 2020
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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
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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
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Opposing ViewpointsArticles from magazines, newspapers, journals, pamphlets, primary source documents and other sources of information on controversial topics
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Science DirectLarge collection of science, technology and medicine in full-text (current + last 9 years) and bibliographic information
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Gale Literary SourcesFormerly known as Literature Resource Center. Articles on critical analysis, bibliographies, and biographies of authors from many literary disciplines and countries.
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ProQuest CentralArticles on any subject. This is a good place to start.
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Oxford African American Studies CenterArticles and scholarly essays, historical newspaper articles, primary sources, and timelines you can use for African American topics.
News Articles in Online Magazines and Newspapers, 2013 - Present
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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 -
City, University of London researchers reflect on the remarkable life of Henrietta Lacks for UK Black History Month
News from City, University of London, October 26, 2020 -
Henrietta Lacks: science must right a historical wrong
Nature, September 1, 2020 -
Why all of medicine should be paying reparations to Henrietta Lacks
msn, August 8, 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 -
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 -
Immortal Tension: Henrietta Lacks, And The Rift Between The New Common Rule And The Common Good
From WBUR, Jan 20, 2016, -
Henrietta Lacks biographer Rebecca Skloot responds to US parent over 'porn' allegation
from The Guardian, September 9, 2015 -
Henrietta Lacks: She lives within all Americans
From Times and Democrat, February 15, 2015 -
Human tissue removed for medical tests is ‘personal property’ of institution, not person it came from: ruling
from National Post (Canada), June 5, 2014 -
The Hard Cell
from Baltimore Magazine, October 2013 -
A New Chapter in the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
from National Geographic, August 16, 2013 -
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 line
from Washington Post, April 1, 2013
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HeLa-cious coverage: Media overlook ethical angles of Henrietta Lacks storyfrom Columbia Journalism Review, March 28, 2013
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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
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The Immortal, Shattered Cells of Henrietta Lacks
from the Atlantic, March 15, 2013
Older Articles (1997 - 2012)
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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 -
Why Henrietta Lacks Matters
from Boston.com, March 28, 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
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Henrietta Lacks’ ‘Immortal’ Cells
from Smithsonian, January 22, 2011 -
'Immortal' Cells Of Henrietta Lacks Live On In Labs
December 13, 2010 NPR report from Talk of the Nation. Also available as a 30 minute audio file.
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Henrietta Lacks: the mother of modern medicine
from Guardian, June 23, 2010
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An Epitaph, at Last
from SoVaNow.com, May 31, 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
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A Lasting Gift to Medicine That Wasn’t Really a Gift
from New York Times, February 1, 2010
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How One Woman's Cells Changed Medicine
from ABC News, January 31, 2010 -
Henrietta's Dance
April, 2000 article by Rebecca Skloot. From Johns Hopkins Magazine:
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Her cells made her immortal
from Baltimore Sun, March 18, 1997