I just discovered this:

in robert •  2 years ago 

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/henrietta-lacks-virginia-hometown-to-build-her-statue-where-robert-e-lee-once-stood-180981383/

Roanoke Virginia tore down a statue of the traitor and ardent defender of the enslaving of human beings, Robert E Lee.

In it’s place they are erecting a statue of… Henrietta Lacks, the original donor (without her consent) of the HeLa immortalized cell line.

That moment of sanity on the part of the Roanoke city council is a note of hope for the future.

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