Feb 26, 2023
Like you most of the other stuff that comes flying through and often times is spam or otherwise I just ignore but the title of this post by a guy named Alex Foster caught my attention when it said, who is the greatest person that history has forgotten?..,, this lady's death saved literally billions of people from becoming crippled limitless in dead.
Well I bit on the title and clicked and I'm glad I did, almost providential because there was a story of just that a young African-American woman by the name of Henrietta Lacks who unfortunately had died of cervical cancer as a young woman but the rest of the story is that in her death the title of literally billions of people from becoming... It's probably true.
The story was deeply moving and really touched my spirit and heart but I couldn't get over the thought, why is this the first time in my long life and even as a teacher and a historian that I had never heard of this story before. Well I have now and I'm grateful and so for the few of you who will click I'd like to share the story with you too.