The Moore Report: Baltimore celebrates Henrietta Lacks as the moral arc of the universe bends her way
By Ralph E. Moore Jr. The legal settlement over the unauthorized, unjustified harvesting and distribution of Henrietta Lacks’ unique cancerous DNA cells began in Baltimore. You may have heard that a 31-year-old wife and mother of five entered a racially segregated hospital ward at Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore in 1951. And, while being