Watch Oprah Fight for Justice in the Trailer for HBO's Henrietta Lacks Movie

Oprah Winfrey already has 18 Emmys on her shelf… but she may want to clear space for one more. In the just-released trailer for the HBO movie The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — debuting Saturday, April 22 at 8/7c — Miss O stars as Deborah Lacks, whose mother Henrietta’s cells were used by scientists to create the […]

‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ Teaser: HBO Sends Oprah Winfrey Digging for Answers

Even if you’ve never heard of Henrietta Lacks, there’s a good chance she’s impacted your life in some way. In 1951, while Lacks was undergoing treatment for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital, her cells were harvested without her knowledge or consent and used to create HeLa cell line. While Lacks herself passed away that same year, […]