Baltimore Mayor Honors Henrietta Lacks

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will honor the memory of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells continue to have an impact on medicine 65 years after they were taken during a medical procedure, in a lecture for Women's History Month.

Rawlings-Blake will participate in a presentation geared toward discussing ethics, race and medicine.

The discussion will take place on Friday at noon at City Hall.

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