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Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) [ 1] was an African-American woman [ 4] whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line [ A] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific ...
Black women are three times more likely to develop uterine fibroids. Lupus is two-three times more common in women of color, but more specifically, one in every 537 Black women will have lupus. [ 45] Black women are also at a higher chance of being overweight thus making them open to more obesity-related diseases. [ 46]
Iris Floyd Kyle [ 22][ 23] was born on August 22, 1974 [ 22] in Benton Harbor, Michigan, [ 22] the fifth of six children. Her early athletic endeavors included running cross country, basketball (point guard), softball (shortstop) and volleyball. She was an All-American in basketball, and received a number of athletic scholarship offers.
OPINION: Even as the fashion industry promotes body-hugging clothes that highlight women’s curvy derrieres, Black women and girls still face the policing of their bodies. The post We need to ...
Hortense J. Spillers (born 1942) is an American literary critic, Black Feminist scholar and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University.A scholar of the African diaspora, Spillers is known for her essays on African-American literature, collected in Black, White, and In Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2003 ...
A Sacramento County hospital is accused of misplacing a woman's body. The woman's mother told CBS13 she had no idea her daughter had died for a year.
Lead. African American beauty focuses on the beauty of African Americans, as beauty is viewed differently by various groups. [2] Similar to other cultures, ideals of beauty in African-American communities have varied throughout the years. Influenced by the racial perspectives on beauty, lighter skin tones and straight hair have been considered ...
Thick: And Other Essays is a collection of essays "about how American culture treats black women". [3] McMillan Cottom centers her personal experience as a Southern black public intellectual, and writes on topics such as the loss of a child, sexual abuse, body image, and beauty politics. [4]