The Woman Behind A Medical Miracle: Henrietta Lacks
American exceptionalism would not allow for this story to be told, that is, the story of Henrietta Lacks. Her life began in a shack in Roanoke, Virginia, now, what her mother, Eliza Lacks Pleasant, did not know was that she had just birthed a medical marvel. It would be decades later that Henrietta’s genetic code would prove to be most astonishing.
