Rose Byrne & Oprah Winfrey in 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'; Dr. Roland Pattillo (insert) Courtesy Morehouse School of Medicine/HBO Roland A. Pattillo, the gynecologic oncologist who played a ...

The man who preserved the legacy of medical hero Henrietta Lacks died in May, but big media missed the story. I couldn’t. A statue of Henrietta Lacks in Bristol, England. The statue, created by ...

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Dr. Roland Pattillo and his wife Pat O'Flynn Pattillo paid for Henrietta Lacks' permanent headstone, a smooth, substantial block of pink granite. It sits in the shape of a hardcover book. Henrietta ...