The Office of Diversity Programs and the Women's Resource Center Book Club Announces their next selection:

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Friday, February 24, 2012 12-1 PM
Women's Resource Center
Discussion led by Stephanie Ray, Associate Dean of Students/Director, Diversity Programs

For years the medical and scientific communities conversed about the miraculous He-La cells. However, few thought about the real origin of the cells. After all, the cells came from a human being, right? What was her name? Did she have a family? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a true story that parallels the Tuskegee Experiment. The story is about Henrietta Lacks, a poor Black women who was treated at the historic John's Hopkins Hospital for ovarian cancer. Without her knowledge her cells were harvested for scientific research. The cells were in such high demand a factory was built in Tuskegee, Alabama. He-La cells have traveled around the world and to the moon. Many diseases have been cured because this woman's cells were able to live outside her body.  How could she not know?  How could her family not know? How could we not know? Where is the justice?