Sublime

Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans,

first immortal human cells. To which they replied, Can I have some? And George said yes.

Late in the era of the syphilis experiment, doctors discovered that rather than bad blood, Henrietta Lacks, a poor Black tobacco farmer and mother of five, had magical cells, so hardy that they were labeled immortal. In 1951, Lacks visited Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore complaining of vaginal bleeding. While she was undergoing treatment for ce

Havasupai Tribe sued Arizona State University after scientists took tissue samples the tribe donated for diabetes research and used them without consent to study schizophrenia and inbreeding.

Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.