Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

CCBC Essex, Building-D

Rebecca Skoot became facinated by an off hand remark made by her high school biology teacher, that the most popular line of cells sold to researchers, called HeLacells, were taken in the 1950's from a young black woman, Henrietta Lacks. Skoot started to to research the story as a grad student and found that Lack's cells were removed without her consent and her descendants had long been unaware about her posthumous contributions to medicine. 

Ms. Rebecca Skoot will be in attendance at CCBC-Essex to speak about her book.

Each year the college selects a book and recommends it to the college and community. The goals of the the community book connection are to enhance student and community learning, to strengthen our common human and intellectual bonds; and to demonstrate the many ways that classroom learning is deeply connected to our lives in the everyday world.

Free- But tickets required