this woman had immortal cells. the cells, named hela, are still used today. they have been used in research that led to the polio vaccine, gene mapping, cancer and nf treatments. most recently, they have helped make covid vaccines. they also helped to create the hpv vaccine, which protects against cervical cancer, the disease which claimed henrietta s life. she died in a segregated ward and was buried in an unmarked grave. it was only in 1975 that, by chance, the family found out about her legacy. since then, they have sought guardianship of her cells and recognition for her contribution to medical science. henrietta lacks cells were grown by the millions. commercial lies, distributed worldwide for researchers and enabling countless advances in medicine, while those cells were making a global impact, henrietta s family was not informed. the who said the racial inequality mrs lacks
are happening across canada right now, led by survivors who arejust, you know, they ve been triggered into their grief and they want to do something about it. now, i ve heard one survivor, so far, say that those bodies need to stay where they are. at the same time, these are crime scenes. that s the bottom line. you do not bury a body in an unmarked grave. that is considered a crime in canada, and these crimes have to be investigated. in fact, i brought this up to the prime minister when i talked to him briefly. i brought it up with the attorney general of canada, that we need an independent rapporteur. the chiefs across canada are calling for that, and we re making some headway on that. so, i know that people are very sensitive to the situation around these little children. i mean, these children were loved. these children were cared for. and the idea of exhuming,
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SWIFT CURRENT More than 30 wooden grave markers have been replaced with permanent headstones at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Swift Current. The wooden crosses were put up the by the local branch of the Royal Canadian Legion over the years in a section of the cemetery known as the “Field of Honour” for soldiers without an official military marker, many of them from veterans of WWI and WWII. “The wooden crosses were put in place where there was no marker for a deceased veteran,” said Jim Pratt, a past president of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 56.
The crosses are prone to weathering and eventually need to be restored or replaced. But now the legion has partnered with the Last Post Fund to give the soldiers permanent headstones through its Unmarked Grave Program.
16-year-old wants to get their i want to be free. i want to go work and be free from all of this. i have a plan. and i asked her for i need my birth certificate. i need this. she told me, they changed the laws. you can t get your driver s license until you re 18 years old. yeah. and i m supposed to believe this. as i sit in a classroom where i ve got friends who are getting permits. she took the lies with her. she was not going to tell. what about the birth certificate? never gave me a concrete answer, nothing. couldn t get anything out of her. the lies stayed with her. shirley knew the answers, of course. knew the whole bizarre story, but she looked pepper in the eye through her obvious pain and told her nothing. she left the lies behind and took the truth to her grave. on july 29th, 1986, at the age of 63. she was buried here, this cemetery, in an unmarked grave.