Tasasha Henderson

Oct 9, 2023 | truthout.org | Sarah Kwon |Fatimah Gifford |Sofia Quaglia |Tasasha Henderson

When Selam Solomon Caldwell and her husband learned she was pregnant last year, the stakes for finding the right OB-GYN felt high. Caldwell, a Black woman, had heard stories from family and friends of maternity care providers who ignored their requests or pressured them into cesarean sections without clear medical justification. As a relative newcomer to Los Angeles, the recruiter, now 31, knew few Black people who could recommend doctors who had treated them with respect.

Aug 9, 2023 | truthout.org | Kwolanne Felix |Eisa Nefertari Ulen |Tasasha Henderson |Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez

Skip to contentSkip to footerThe medical industry has a long history of using Black bodies for research without consent or compensation. After a two-year legal battle against Biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific, descendants of Henrietta Lacks won a settlement over the use of their relative’s DNA. Seventy years ago, Johns Hopkins Hospital removed tissue from Lacks’s cervix without her consent as she was dying of cervical cancer.