For decades, the story of Henrietta Lacks has carried a painful contradiction: cells taken from her body helped transform modern medicine, yet the Black woman behind them died poor and unknown, buried ...

Best-selling young adult novelist Maggie Stiefvater and Henrietta Lacks’ grandson Ron Lacks are among the authors featured at Baltimore’s premier literary festival. The Baltimore Book Festival ...

Several events continue SUNY Cortland’s yearlong quest to answer questions about a common humanity — especially the issues that divide it — by considering a non-fiction book concerned with race and ...

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HBO Films announced today that it has acquired the rights to Rebecca Skloot’s non-fiction best seller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and will develop a film for HBO based on the book. Oprah ...

One of the pages in the front of Rebecca Skloot's book lists 19 awards that "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" has won. It is also currently on the best seller list. Is the book that good? Yes, it ...

The Springfield Free Public Library's (Really Good) Book Discussion Group will meet on Thursday, June 7 at 7 p.m., to discuss "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot. This book ...

Henrietta Lacks' cells were essential in developing the polio vaccine and were used in scientific landmarks such as cloning, gene mapping and in vitro fertilization. Courtesy of the Lacks family ...