Video, audio, and photos on Rebecca Skloot's web site

I recently visited Rebecca Skloot's web site and found a wealth of information about Henrietta Lacks and her family. In the photos section, you can see many photos that were not included in the book. There are several photos of Deborah and Zakariyya, two of Henrietta's children, looking at their mother's cells for the first time. There are extensive photos of Clover, Henrietta's hometown, throughout the years, as well as photos from Turner's Station, the Baltimore suburb where Henrietta lived for the last several years of her life. In the audio/video section, you can watch a video of HeLa cells dividing. You can also watch The Way of All Flesh, the BBC documentary mentioned throughout the book. Ms. Skloot also included a video from her book tour, which includes footage of Henrietta's son Sonny and his two daughters talking about HeLa's impact on their lives.

I definitely recommend visiting this web site to see people and places from the book come to life.

Henrietta Lacks forever....

Here is an article from Wired Magazine that gives a time line on the importance of the HeLa cells and how they have been helping science.  http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01/st_henrietta/

Rebecca Skloot website   http://rebeccaskloot.com/

Text in Community 2010-2011

North Carolina A&T’s Text-in-Community
is out next title up for discussion
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot.
A true story about an African American woman and her cancerous cells known as the HeLa cell that has supplied the holy grails of mid-century biology.

Join us in F.D. Bluford Library, Suite 100

          August 12th and 26th
          12:30-1:30pm

Bring your Lunch, Bring a friend

Available in Bluford Library A&T Stacks RC265.6.L24 S55 2010

Coming soon this title will be available on Bluford Library's Sony ereaders