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Banned Books Week: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

  • Friendly City Books 423 Main Street Columbus, MS, 39701 United States (map)

Join us for our Banned Books Week annual readaloud with Mississippi University for Women students and community members. Free copies available while supplies last courtesy of the Friendly City Books Community Connection, a special project of the CREATE Foundation.

“This wonderful book finds the human drama behind the scientific breakthrough of the discovery of cells taken from a young Black woman dying of cervical cancer without her knowledge,” according to School Library Journal. Learn why this book has been challenged.

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