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Henrietta Lacks’s Family Wants Compensation For Her Cells #BlackHistoryMonth

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Click here to read at The Washington Post.

Henrietta Lacks circa 1945–1951

This 1940s photo made available by the family shows Henrietta Lacks. In 1951, a doctor in Baltimore removed cancerous cells from Lacks without her knowledge or consent. Source: Wikipedia

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‘Moonlight’s’ Alex R. Hibbert Wants to be a Scientist and is Planning to Spend Acting Money on Cancer Research

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Read about it at Indiewire.com.

Twelve-year-old Hibbert stars as the young Chiron in Moonlight (2016).

Twelve-year-old Hibbert stars as the young Chiron in Moonlight (2016).

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Iranian-American the First Woman to Win the “Nobel Prize of Mathematics”

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Click here to read at Mother Jones.

Meet Maryam Mirzakhani…

Nobel Prize-winner Maryam Mirzakhani

Nobel Prize-winner Maryam Mirzakhani

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Afrofuturist Artists Craft A Virtual World For Women Of Color

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Check it out at The Huffington Post.

THIS IS BEYOND BOMB.
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Genes and the Holy G: Siddhartha Mukherjee on the Dark Cultural History of IQ and Why We Can’t Measure Intelligence

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Click here to read at Brainpickings.com.

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Google Doodle Celebrates Scientist Jagdish Chandra Bose’s 158th Birthday

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Click here to read at Indianexpress.com.

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The scientific way to train white people to stop being racist

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LINK: What makes race so hard for white people to talk about?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson & Robert Kirkman: The Science of ‘The Walking Dead’

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LINK: Star Talk episode includes anthropologist and medical science expert

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