Henrietta Lacks hometown will build statue of her where Robert E Lee sculpture once stoodKendall Ross, ABC News wttf.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wttf.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Henrietta Lacks, the Baltimore woman whose HeLa cells were taken without her consent by Johns Hopkins in 1951, is being honored with a statue in her Roanoke birthplace.
A shameful part of Roanokeās past is about to get new attention. A group advocating for racial justice outlined its latest plans to commemorate two lynchings in the city.