{"id":858051,"date":"2023-09-14T03:46:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T03:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=858051"},"modified":"2023-09-24T03:38:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T03:38:15","slug":"honoring-lawrence-lacks-sr-son-of-henrietta-lacks-and-prominent-advocate-for-hela-cells-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/family-relationships\/honoring-lawrence-lacks-sr-son-of-henrietta-lacks-and-prominent-advocate-for-hela-cells-rights","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Lawrence Lacks Sr.: Son of Henrietta Lacks and Prominent Advocate for HeLa Cells Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Lacks Sr.&#8217;s family commemorated his life and achievements on Wednesday, praising his resolute fight for justice, a cause that attracted global attention. He was widely known for his consistent pursuit of legal action against a biotech firm involved in the unauthorized usage of his mother&#8217;s HeLa cell line. His determination led the World Health Organization to honor his mother, Henrietta Lacks, with the Director General&#8217;s Award in 2022, posthumously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Lacks Sr.&#8217;s family commemorated his life and achievements on Wednesday, praising his resolute fight for justice, a cause that attracted global attention. He was widely known for his consistent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-relationships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}