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Henrietta Lacks statue to replace confederate monument
The city of Roanoke, VA will replace a statue of Robert E. Lee that has been removed with one of Henrietta Lacks. Lacks was a black mother whose cells were taken during cancer treatments in 1951 without consent.
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