The family of Henrietta Lacks at the unveiling of a statue on the 70th anniversary of her death at Royal Fort House in Bristol.
The statue, created by Bristol artist Helen Wilson-Roe, is the first public sculpture of a black woman made by a black wom COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The estate of Henrietta Lacks sued a biotechnology company on Monday, accusing it of selling cells that doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took from the Black woman in 1951 without her knowledge or consent as part of "a racially unjust medical system."Tissue taken from the woman's tumor before she died of cervical cancer became the first human cells to be successfully cloned.