Henrietta Lacks Legacy Group

05/31/2026

Grace Hudson Museum’s current exhibit, Look Again: Portraits of Daring Women had a soft opening on May 23rd. The official opening takes place on First Friday, June 5th from 5:00-8:00.

05/27/2026

Members of the Henrietta Lacks Hometown Initiative Committee and the Lacks Family cut the ribbon Friday morning on an informational marker next to a statue of Henrietta Lacks in South

05/21/2026

Marker set to be dedicated at Lacks statue in South Boston

The Henrietta Lacks Hometown Initiative Committee will host a ribbon-cutting event at 9 a.m. Friday for a marker placed at the Henrietta Lacks statue located at Constitution Square in downtown

05/08/2026

BALTIMORE, MD — Johns Hopkins and the Turner-Mahogany Joint Venture team celebrated the topping out of the new Henrietta Lacks Building, marking completion of the structural phase and a significant milestone in the project’s progress. The 33,600-square-foot, four-story facility connects to the h...

04/20/2026

Community College of Baltimore County celebrated the legacy of Turner Station with a reception on Feb. 19.

04/15/2026

"The second bill to pass the House — unanimously — was House Bill 166, the Henrietta Lacks Commission. This bill would preserve the legacy of Henrietta Lacks and the use of HeLa cells."
https://www.avenuenews.com/del-metzgar-s-2026-end-of-session-update/article_62a5695f-96ed-421a-b5f1-c3387f263dc3.html

04/06/2026

Del. Ric Metzgar (R-6) is the sponsor of House Bill 166, which establishes the Henrietta Lacks Commission.

04/01/2026

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” tells the story of an ordinary African-American woman whose cells were taken without her knowledge.

03/30/2026

Updating the Canon: The Story of Henrietta Lacks Is Not Over
https://bioethicstoday.org/blog/updating-the-canon-the-story-of-henrietta-lacks-is-not-over/ #

Three cases appear in almost every bioethics course: the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the death of Jesse Gelsinger, and the story of Henrietta Lacks. All

03/17/2026

Reader commentary: Immortal cells case left a complex legacy for Johns Hopkins and the medical establishment.