Town to place statue of Henrietta Lacks, unsung source of medical advances, where Lee once stood

A life-size bronze statue of Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cancer cells were taken without her consent and were used for research that ushered medical discoveries and treatments, will be erected in her hometown, Roanoke, Va., next year in a plaza previously named after the Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

Roanoke Hidden Histories, an organization dedicated to acknowledging Black history in the community’s public spaces, raised more than $183,000 for the project.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/us/henrietta-lacks-statue-roanoke-virginia.html

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