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Living in Maryland, Henrietta and Day Lacks had three more children: David "Sonny" Lacks Jr. in 1947, Deborah Lacks (later known as Deborah Lacks Pullum) in 1949 (died 2009), and Joseph Lacks (later known as Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman after converting to Islam) in 1950.
Daughter of Henrietta Lacks. Deborah longs to know more about her mother and understand what happened to her. After years of mistreatment and miscommunication from reporters and doctors alike, the mystery around her mother’s cells causes Deborah severe health issues.
Jul 30, 2020 · Who was Deborah Lacks Pullum? How did her mother’s death and exploitation affect her? Did Deborah Lacks ever get anything for the HeLa cells taken from her mother? Deborah Lacks Pullum was the fourth child of Henrietta Lacks and David “Day” Pleasant. She was the only daughter to survive to adulthood.
Apr 22, 2017 · When I first called Henrietta’s daughter Deborah Lacks with hopes of writing a book, I had no idea how deep the story actually ran—that Henrietta’s children were also used in research without...
May 2, 2018 · Skloot worked for years alongside Henrietta’s daughter, Deborah Lacks, whose determination to uncover the true story of her mother resulted in a book that has changed not only the lives of the family she left behind, but the course of science as well.
Feb 1, 2010 · A researcher in a lab at Hopkins swung open a freezer door and showed the daughter, Deborah Lacks-Pullum, thousands of vials, each holding millions of cells descended from a bit of tissue...
Oct 9, 2020 · Lacks’s daughter Deborah Lacks provided personal insight regarding her mother’s story to Skloot in the making of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Though Henrietta Lacks died on 4 October 1951 at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, her cells continue to live on through the HeLa cell line, as of 2020.
