In a freakish stroke of bad timing, a Roanoke, Virginia, historian discovered a childhood home of Henrietta Lacks but city officials weren’t told of its significance in time to call off the demolition.
Source: The Baltimore Sun County News
‘It blows my mind’: Lost to history, Virginia home of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells transformed medicine, is demolished
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