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Henrietta Lacks’ descendants sue for compensation

A list of race and racism news you might have missed

Stephanie Siek
Momentum
Published in
5 min readOct 9, 2021

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A photo taken through a microscope shows HeLa cells cultured from tissue taken from Henrietta Lacks. The cells appear on a black background. They are stained with additives that make them appear cyan blue with a purple center and red fringe on the edges.
A microscope photo of HeLa cells generated from the tissue of Henrietta Lacks

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

The above 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. quote is one of my mantras. It loops through my head whenever…

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Stephanie Siek
Momentum

Stephanie Siek is a writer and editor who loves cats, cookie dough and aborted alliteration.