Maybe it was about the soon-to-be released Oprah Winfrey/HBO movie about Spencer’s great-grandmother Henrietta Lacks, the Baltimore cancer patient whose cells were collected by Johns Hopkins researchers without her knowledge. The most explosive allegation was that some family members aren’t family members at all. Lawrence Lacks, 82, and Ron Lacks, 58, the son and grandson of Henrietta Lacks, look at family photos at Ron’s home in Baltimore County. “She was a loving, freehearted woman,” he said, remembering the family members Henrietta had helped and her deathbed directions. Individual donations and the 56 grants of up to $10,000 each made to Lacks family members are confidential, Skloot said.

Source: Washington Post March 29, 2017 11:03 UTC