“I first envisioned it as a foundation for education, but I realized that the people who were affected the most were her kids, and they needed some medical care and dental care,” Ms. Skloot said from her home in Chicago.
“Now I can smile and I can eat,” said Kimberly Lacks, who received $3,000 for the dental work after she lost her job.
—The New York Times on the Henrietta Lacks Foundation, founded by Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
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