Photo by Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images By Donna M. Owens ·August 5, 2021August 5, 2021
Relatives of the late Henrietta Lacks— whose cells were taken 70 years ago and used for biomedical research that continues today— have retained high-profile lawyers.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump and co-counsel Christopher A. Seeger held a press conference on July 29 in Baltimore attended by Lacks’ eldest son, Lawrence Lacks Sr., and multiple family members.
“The American pharmaceutical
