Blogs I Follow
- The Nerds of Color
- orinstudio
- Rudy's Ruminations
- Appleboat Express
- David Snape Show - Bourne and Beyond
- Ron Daise
- Scott Woods Makes Lists
- Black America Web
- KINFOLK KOLLECTIVE
- feminismandreligion.wordpress.com/
- Negra con N mayúscula
- THE SEWING DIVAS sewing, design, fashion
- Bag'n-telle
- Backstrap Weaving
- Art-Z Jewelry
- Beauty by Sidd
- Being Shadoan
- Richard MacManus
- mary & mac design
- Jewellerymaker
- Ashlynsully
- Covert Operations: Alpha
- Womb Of Light
- Thought Catalog
- Isiopolis
- Aaron Daniel Writes
- HarsH ReaLiTy
- FenderMama Likes
- Political Adventures
- The Urban Daily
- Rare
- Poems & People
- Eccentric and Bent
- generaliregi
- Don Charisma
- GOOD BLACK NEWS
- Galactic Priestess Academy
- Caracas Chronicles
- The Daily Hawk!
- RED Goddess Journal
- NewsFeed
- victor's mind
- littlegirlstory
- timzauto.... in search of the blond haired kid
- Humanity777's Blog
- Top 10 of Anything and Everything!!!
- The Reformed Conservative
- valeriu dg barbu
- Break Room Stories
- Perception Paradox
The answer is Henrietta Lacks (although she was named Loretta Pleasant at birth). She was an American Black woman. Her cancer cells were harvested in 1951. They have been and are still being used in medical research around the world. The HeLa cell line has been used to study and create vaccines from the Polio vaccine to the HPV vaccine. These cells have been used to research Cancer, HIV, Gene Mapping and many other research topics. These cells have even gone into space. Read more about Henrietta, her life, and legacy in the book by Rebecca Skloot called “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”. http://rebeccaskloot.com/the-immortal-life/