LOCATION: Johnson Center Cinema

Join the Visiting Filmmakers Series and College of Science for a screening of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks on Monday, February 26, 2024, in the Johnson Center Cinema from 5:30-8:30pm. The screening will be followed by a panel and group discussion.

The film tells the true story of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line, known as HeLa. Told primarily through the eyes of Lacks’ daughter Deborah (Oprah Winfrey) and journalist Rebecca Skloot (Rose Byrne), the film investigates how the unauthorized harvesting of Lacks’ cancerous cells in 1951 led to unprecedented medical breakthroughs, from cancer to polio to radiation to AIDS, changing countless lives and the face of medicine forever.

This event is free and open to the public.