In a freakish stroke of bad timing, a Roanoke, Virginia, historian discovered a childhood home of Henrietta Lacks but city officials weren’t told of its significance in time to call off the demolition.
An excavator’s claw no one in local history circles saw coming leveled a house that records say was once the home of Henrietta Lacks, the Roanoke-born woman described as the mother of modern medicine.
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