zhiviDec 29, 2022
Do you know who Henrietta Lacks is? Statue of Henrietta Lacks will replace Robert E Lee. Read the article.
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Statue of Henrietta Lacks will replace Robert E Lee - BBC News

She will be honoured decades after cells taken without her consent helped revolutionise medicine.

BBC News
Show threadLizzie Speaks Too Soon
@zhivi @BlackMastodon I never heard about her. What a hero! I'm so sorry her treatment was unsuccessful. She and her family should have known much sooner about her contribution. I'm glad her statue is going up in the place of that loser racist traitor.
Dec 31, 2022 at 7:52pmWeb
Show threadzhiviDec 31, 2022
@BlackMastodon @LizzieSpeaks this is, and many others reasons, why some in the black community don’t like doctors or prefer to go to black doctors.
Show threadLizzie Speaks Too SoonDec 31, 2022
@zhivi @BlackMastodon Yep. I get it. I would do the same.