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activist and recording artist Sho Baraka wrestles deeply and honestly with these questions
the daughter
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the largest African American event in the nation
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Literary Fiction activist and recording artist ShoHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cellstaken without her knowledgebecame one of the most important tools in medicine: The first immortal human cells grown in culture, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of
