All posts by Deion Scott Hawkins
Medical exploitation of Black people in America goes far beyond the cells stolen from Henrietta Lacks that produced modern day miracles
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. In a case that revealed the exploitation of a Black woman beginning in the 1950s and extending for 70 years, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. settled a lawsuit that the estate of Henrietta Lacks had filed against the biotech…
Not all insurrections are equal – for enslaved Americans, it was the only option
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. For most Americans, Jan. 6 was once an ordinary, ho-hum day. That changed in 2021 when millions of television viewers watched thousands of Trump supporters assault the U.S. Capitol in their violent attempt to stop Joe Biden’s presidential…