Dr. Roland Pattillo and his wife Pat O'Flynn Pattillo paid for Henrietta Lacks' permanent headstone, a smooth, substantial block of pink granite. It sits in the shape of a hardcover book. Henrietta ...

Roland A. Pattillo, a gynecologic oncologist who had been treating and researching female cancers for decades, had long been haunted by the curious case of Henrietta Lacks, a young, impoverished Black ...

For more than a quarter century, the Morehouse School of Medicine has held a conference named for Henrietta Lacks. She was a young Black mother who died in 1951 and whose cells were harvested without ...

Rose Byrne & Oprah Winfrey in 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'; Dr. Roland Pattillo (insert) Courtesy Morehouse School of Medicine/HBO Roland A. Pattillo, the gynecologic oncologist who played a ...