The Mother of Modern Medicine, Henrietta Lack, is honored by WHO

[Gloria Emeagwali]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58903934.amp

[Assensoh, Akwasi B.]

Professor Gloria:

Thank you very much for the awe-inspiring news below to the effect that, finally, the Mother of Modern Medicine has 

been honored by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), headed by our Ethiopian brother that Mr. Donald J. Trump

 detested; no wonder, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali won the Nobel Peace Prize instead of the then U.S. 

President!

In fact, Henrietta Lack's life and times have been brought to my classrooms for many years. Today (Thursday, 

10/14/2021), I plan to print the attachment for my Black Biography History Honors Class at University of Oregon.

Continue the inspiring historical work you continue to do, my fellow distinguished Historian. I always remember 

that we are among the Oxford alumni of the former Center for Cross-Cultural Research on Women (CCCRW), 

Queen Elizabeth House!!

Cheers!

  A.B. Assensoh

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Rev.  A.B. Assensoh, LL.M., PH.D.,

Co-Book Review Editor, African & Asian Studies Journal,
Professor Emeritus (Indiana University), 
Courtesy Professor Emeritus (University of Oregon), 
Department of History, 
McKenzie Hall (2nd Floor), University of Oregon,
Eugene, OR 97403,   U.S.A.

Telephone: (541) 953-7710
Fax: (541) 346-6576

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[Emeagwali, Gloria (History)]

Thank you. Your  Black Biography class seems

pretty interesting. Do you include Black Inventors?

It would be nice to hear more about it.

GE

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association

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[biko...@yahoo.com]

Researchers pay to use her cells but her family never gets a penny. Finally, they are suing for reparative Justice and for future royalties.

https://www.livescience.com/henrietta-lacks-hela-cell-lawsuit-thermo-fisher

Biko

[Gloria Emeagwali]

“More than 50,000,000 metric tonnes of HeLa cells have been distributed around the world since they were taken from Lacks, according to the WHO .........................   As well as HPV, the cell line has been crucial to the development of the polio vaccine and drugs for HIV/AIDS, haemophilia, leukaemia, and Parkinson’s disease. It has also led to breakthroughs in reproductive health, including in vitro fertilisation, and has been used in thousands of studies, including for COVID-19.”

Al Jazeera

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