Rep. Mfume Files Bill Honoring Henrietta Lacks With the Congressional Gold Medal
March 16, 2022
March 16, 2022
WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Maryland, issued the following news release:
Congressman Kweisi Mfume filed legislation to posthumously honor the immortal life of Henrietta Lacks with a Congressional Gold Medal. Ms. Lacks tragically died of cancer in 1951, at the age of thirty-one, after undergoing treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
While being treated, the hospital collected samples of her cells. Lacks' cells, labeled "HeLa cells,& . . .
Congressman Kweisi Mfume filed legislation to posthumously honor the immortal life of Henrietta Lacks with a Congressional Gold Medal. Ms. Lacks tragically died of cancer in 1951, at the age of thirty-one, after undergoing treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
While being treated, the hospital collected samples of her cells. Lacks' cells, labeled "HeLa cells,& . . .