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Apr 15, 2017 · The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Seven years ago, Oprah was deeply moved by the astonishing book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the true account of a single patient who unwittingly transformed modern medicine. Now she’s starring in the HBO adaptation (out April 22) alongside Rose Byrne. A look at one woman’s journey from ...
Apr 17, 2017 · By Keith Uhlich. April 17, 2017 9:10am. There’s a great story to be told about Henrietta Lacks, the African-American tobacco farmer who, in 1951, had a tissue sample removed, without her ...
Watch The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (HBO) Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line. Told through the eyes of Lack's daughter Deborah (Oprah Winfrey) and a journalist, the film chronicles Deborah's search to learn about the mother she never knew, and how the unauthorized harvesting of Lacks' cancerous cells in 1951 ...
Apr 21, 2017 · 3 minute read. I n HBO’s new movie, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Oprah Winfrey plays Deborah Lacks, whose mother Henrietta Lacks’s cells permanently changed the course of medicine ...
Feb 18, 2017 · The story of Henrietta Lacks was documented in Rebecca Skloot’s 2010 book of the same title, which explores the story behind Henrietta Lacks and the immortal cell line that is derived from ...
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Apr 22, 2017 · Oprah Winfrey and John Beasley in HBO’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Aja Romano writes about pop culture, media, and ethics. Before joining Vox in 2016, they were a staff reporter at ...
