Скачать или смотреть Official unveiling of the Henrietta Lacks statue at the University of Bristol

The recording of the unveiling event for the statue of Henrietta Lacks in Royal Fort Gardens, University of Bristol.

The University commissioned local artist Helen Wilson-Roe to create a statue of Henrietta Lacks, a Black American woman whose human cells (known as HeLa cells) were the first ever to survive and multiply outside the body and have since been used to make possible some of the most important medical advances of all time including the development of the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, gene mapping, IVF and cloning.

The piece is the first public statue of a Black woman made by a Black woman in the UK and will be installed permanently on the University campus.

This unveiling was streamed live as part of the HELA100 virtual colloquium. HELA100 is the Lacks’ family-led celebration honouring Henrietta Lacks’ impact seventy years to the day since her untimely death with cervical cancer.