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☆ Opinion | What Does True Consent Look Like for Consumers?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A man with a squeegee cleans your windshield while your car is stopped and then asks for money. Society expects that when we sit down in a barber chair, we’re implicitly agreeing to exchange money for a shearing. What constitutes consent is an unsettled aspect of law, and there are big economic implications. There are also debates about express consent, which seems like it would be cut and dried but actually isn’t. There are several spheres of life where questions of consent are bubbling up.

Persons: we’re, Henrietta Lacks Organizations: . Society

☆ For Ytasha Womack, the Afrofuture Is Now
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Katrina Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

And as with many things Afrofuturistic, Ytasha Womack’s fingerprints are all over it. (In 2023, Ms. Womack published “Black Panther: A Cultural Exploration,” Marvel’s reference book examining the films’ influences.) Afrofuturism is a way of thinking about the future, with alternate realities based on perspectives of the African diaspora. People have used imagination to transform their circumstances, to move from one reality to another. And so to claim your imagination — to embrace it — can be a way of elevating your consciousness.

Persons: Womack, “, Octavia Butler, Nyota Uhura, Janelle Monáe, Henrietta, “ Niyah Organizations: Adler, Carnegie Hall’s, National Museum of, Star, New York Times Locations: Chicago

☆ 'Father of Modern Gynecology' J. Marion Sims performed dangerous 'experiments' on enslaved Black women without the use of anesthesia
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Brianna Holt | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Many of his medical achievements came at the cost of the health and well-being of enslaved Black women. He performed surgical experiments on enslaved Black women, often without the use of anesthesia. Black women were experimented on to improve health care for white womenSocietal, institutional, and systemic racism has endangered the lives of Black women for centuries. In a 2023 CDC study , Black women reported experiences of mistreatment during maternity care at the highest rate of women surveyed. As enslaved Black women were considered to be the property pf their owners, and therefore did not have their own rights of refusal, Sims' experimented on Black women in order to improve gynecological outcomes for white women.

Persons: Marion Sims, —, J, Sims, Spencer Platt, fistulas, Lucy, Black, Julia Axelrod, Henrietta, Fannie Lou Hamer, sterilizing, vesicovaginal fistulas Organizations: Gynecology, Service, Design, Parks Department, Park, 103rd, Getty, Equity Locations: New York, Central, Mississippi, CDC, Montgomery

☆ Carrie Mae Weems and George C. Wolfe on Defiance and Claiming Space
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Jenny Comita | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

George C. Wolfe can pinpoint the exact moment that sparked his career as a director and dramatist. “We were supposed to sing this song,” recalls Wolfe, 68. “Here was this monumental human being who changed history, and then history forgot him,” says Wolfe, himself a gay man, who has lived in New York City since 1979. Though contemporaries in adjacent disciplines, Wolfe and Weems had never had a real conversation before meeting on a steamy July day in a downtown Manhattan studio. Here, the two discuss their childhoods, art as activism and what they feel is still left to accomplish.

Persons: George C, Wolfe, “, ”, Tony Kushner’s, —, ’, he’s, Henrietta, Ma, “ Rustin, Barack, Michelle Obama’s, Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr, Rustin, Carrie Mae Weems, Julie Mehretu, Lyle Ashton Harris, Weems Organizations: Broadway, Public Theater, York Shakespeare, Netflix, Manhattan’s Guggenheim Museum, Tate Locations: Kentucky, America, York, Washington, New York City, Portland, Brooklyn, Syracuse, N.Y, London, Pergamon, Berlin —, Manhattan

☆ Opinion | The Unsettled Debate at the Heart of the Henrietta Lacks Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To an ordinary person, the answer is obviously yes. Lacks, a Black mother of five, was dying of cervical cancer in 1951 when doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore biopsied tissues from her cervix. Whatever the case, cells from the research sample were later found to be highly valuable because they were the first that could divide indefinitely in a laboratory. And cells are “de-identified,” unlike Lacks’s cells, which are named HeLa to this day. What’s still debated is whether people have a legitimate ownership claim in the first place.

Persons: it’s, Henrietta Lacks, HeLa, What’s Organizations: Johns Hopkins Hospital Locations: Baltimore

☆ Who was Henrietta Lacks? The life of the woman whose 'immortal' cells changed modern medicine forever.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Yoonji Han | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

After her mother died when Lacks was 4 years old, her father sent her and her nine siblings to live with their maternal grandfather in a log cabin in Clover, Virginia. The cabin was once the slave quarters on the plantation that Lacks' white great-grandfather and great-uncle had owned. A tobacco farm in Virginia. Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty ImagesLacks worked as a tobacco farmer starting from an early age, feeding animals, tending the garden, and working in the tobacco fields, according to her family. She attended a designated Black school, but had to drop out to help support the family when she was in the sixth grade.

Persons: Scott J, Ferrell Organizations: Congressional Locations: Clover , Virginia, Virginia

☆ Family of Henrietta Lacks, Whose Unique Cells Changed Science, Settles With Thermo Fisher
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Jennifer Calfas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Family of Henrietta Lacks finally settles lawsuit against biotech company accused of profiting billions of dollars from collecting the Black woman's cancer cells without her consent
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Lea Skene | Sarah Brumfield | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Henrietta Lacks changed modern medicine when doctors took her cells without her consent in 1951. Despite that incalculable impact, the Lacks family had never been compensated. Henrietta Lacks' cells have been part of many medical breakthroughs. "The exploitation of Henrietta Lacks represents the unfortunately common struggle experienced by Black people throughout history," the complaint reads. "It was a long fight — over 70 years — and Henrietta Lacks gets her day."

Persons: Henrietta, HeLa, Ben Crump, Crump, didn't, Rebecca Skloot, Oprah Winfrey, Johns Hopkins, Fisher, George Floyd's, Alfred, Carter Jr, Chris Van Hollen, Ben Cardin, Van Hollen Organizations: Service, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Fisher Scientific Inc, Associated Press, HBO, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Maryland Democrats Locations: Wall, Silicon, Waltham , Massachusetts, Baltimore, Virginia, United States, Baltimore's

☆ Family of Henrietta Lacks Settles with Biotech Company That Used Her Cells
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Amanda Holpuch | More About Amanda Holpuch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The family of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose cancer cells were taken without consent and used to pioneer numerous medical discoveries, reached a settlement on Monday with a biotechnology company that had used the cells. Lacks, who died decades ago, accused the company, Thermo Fisher Scientific, of selling the cells and trying to secure intellectual property rights on the products the cells were used to help develop without compensating the family or seeking their permission or approval. The terms of the settlement are confidential, lawyers for both parties said in a statement. Thermo Fisher, a Massachusetts-based biotechnology company, and the legal team for Ms. Lacks’s family released identical statements announcing the settlement. “The parties are pleased that they were able to find a way to resolve this matter outside of Court and will have no further comment,” the statements said.

Persons: Henrietta Lacks, Lacks’s Locations: Massachusetts

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