The Immortal Life of White Saviors and Black Stories Some books are just impossible to adapt. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is one of them. Author Rebecca Skloot’s breathtaking saga of a black woman in 1950s Baltimore is a tour de force that details the way Henrietta Lacks’s cells, removed f Read more ... rom her without permission while she was treated for c...

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Nothing Can Prepare You for How Powerful The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Is Writers tell stories in hopes that not only are they read but they also come to life. This is what has happened to Rebecca Skloot’s book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

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Text to Text | 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' and 'The Sequel' We invite students to explore the science and ethics of using human cells and tissue for medical research through the lens of Rebecca Skloot’s 2010 book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” and a related 2013 Op-Ed.