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Settlement with family of Henrietta Lacks is an opportunity to reflect on inequalities in genetic research

Aug. 1, 2023 would have been Henrietta Lacks’s 103rd birthday. It was also the day the Lacks family reached a settlement with Thermo Fisher Scientific, the biotech company that used and profited from her “HeLa” cells.

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Henrietta Lacks’ family settles lawsuit with a biotech company that used her cells without consent

Family of Henrietta Lacks settles lawsuit with biotechnology company over her cells, which were taken without her knowledge and used to develop medical innovations. After 70 years, Lacks' descendants reach settlement with Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. over unjust enrichment from her cells.

The Hindu

Family of Henrietta Lacks settles lawsuit against biotech firm Thermo Fisher Scientific

The federal lawsuit in Baltimore claimed Thermo Fisher Scientific has made billions from tissue taken without Henrietta Lacks’s consent from her cervical cancer tumor.

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Biotech company settles lawsuit for profiting off of woman’s cloned cells for seven decades

Henrietta Lacks’ unique ‘Hela’ cells played a crucial role in the development of Covid-19 vaccines and treatments for HIV, leukemia and cancer

The Independent UK

Thermo Fisher Scientific settles with family of Henrietta Lacks, whose HeLa cells uphold medicine

The family of Henrietta Lacks is settling a lawsuit against a biotechnology company it accuses of improperly profiting from her cells

The Independent UK

Chicago Public Schools’ aggressive tactics for removing principals under the microscope

Nine principals have been removed pending discipline or investigations into “serious misconduct” in recent years. Of those, six are Black men.

Chicago Sun-Times

2 more lawsuits filed in Northwestern hazing scandal

Warren Miles Long, a former running back, and John Doe 2 join a growing list of former student-athletes coming forward with lawsuits detailing similar allegations.

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Latest Northwestern Plaintiff Says He Was Hazed As a Minor

The former player says he was 17 when he was subjected to the unwanted rituals.

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Video captures police confronting white woman moments after she shot Black neighbour in row over children playing

Susan Lorincz faces manslaughter charges after shooting AJ Owens in front of her 9-year-old son

The Independent UK

As hazing lawsuits mount against Northwestern, experts hope for a shift in attitudes

With allegations of hazing within several sports programs at Northwestern University, experts say that other U.S. universities should use this time to change their own cultures.

WEKU

Hazing led former Northwestern football player to self-harm, lawsuit alleges

Simba Short, who played defense for Northwestern from 2015-2016, and another player filed suits with civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Chicago firm Levin & Perconti.

Chicago Sun-Times

Witness claims police said ‘Is he one of us?’ as they restrained Malcolm X killer

Mustafa Hassan says comment proved to him that police and FBI knew beforehand that there would be an attempt on activist’s life

The Guardian - US

Lawyers for Malcolm X’s family reveal ‘explosive’ witness and video bolstering assassination conspiracy claims

Malcolm X was a pivotal figure in the struggle for Black civil rights and the nascent Black Power movement

The Independent UK

He witnessed Malcolm X’s assassination. 58 years later, he’s trying to help prove a government conspiracy

Prominent religious and civil rights leader was assassinated at 39-years-old in 1965. Ariana Baio reports

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Pondering how the Northwestern hazing mess could have occurred

The scandal happened in two ways: slowly, then all at once. The all-at-once part is easy: A football player made a complaint about locker-room hazing, an investigation was done and the dynamite blew up. The slowly part is complicated.

Sports Illustrated

First Alleged Northwestern Hazing Victim Publicly Comes Forward in New Lawsuit

Ex-Wildcats quarterback Lloyd Yates and a former women’s volleyball player added to Northwestern’s extensive hazing scandal on Monday.

WEKU

A former Northwestern volleyball player is suing the university over alleged hazing

The former volleyball player is the first female athlete from the university to sue over recent hazing. It's the latest lawsuit over alleged hazing in the school's athletic programs.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘To all the young athletes out there, I urge you to stand up.’ 4th lawsuit filed in Northwestern hazing scandal

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump spoke about the new lawsuit Monday afternoon on behalf of former student football player Lloyd Yates, Last week, Yates said that sexualized hazing was commonplace on the team.

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The Independent UK

Civil rights attorney Crump set to announce another suit against Northwestern over alleged hazing

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is set to announce another lawsuit against Northwestern University over hazing allegations in its athletic programs, with the latest suit touted as containing “damning new details” of sexual hazing and abuse in its football program

Chicago Sun-Times

Of course race is a factor in lawsuits against Northwestern

Not lost on some, how convenient that this decades-old pattern and practice is investigated and goes public during Derrick Gragg’s rare tenure as one of the few existing Black men overseeing a D1 program

Chicago Tribune

As 2nd Northwestern football hazing suit is filed, Fitzgerald’s attorney asks: Where’s the evidence? Meanwhile, other sports under scrutiny.

CHICAGO — Allegations of hazing at Northwestern University spread Wednesday, as a second lawsuit was filed, former football players denounced the practice, and attorneys claimed that baseball, softball and volleyball players were victimized as well.

Sports Illustrated

Third Plaintiff Added to Northwestern Hazing Case, Lawyers Say

Here’s where everything stands among the two legal teams filing suits against the school and members of its administration.

Al Jazeera

US athletes allege hazing abuse at Northwestern University

Student-athletes say hazing at the prominent Illinois university included ‘physical, sexual and emotional abuse’.

Chicago Tribune

2nd football hazing lawsuit filed against Northwestern; lawyers say legal action also forthcoming related to baseball and softball

CHICAGO — Another lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Northwestern University by a former football player, alleging that ex-coach Pat Fitzgerald took part in hazing and bullying athletes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Former Northwestern football players go public with claims of a ‘culture’ of hazing, abuse

“We’re talking about probably hundreds, if not thousands of events of abuse, harassment or sexual assault during his tenure,” attorney Parker Stinar said at a Wednesday morning news conference.

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