For ‘unrecognised black women’: statue of Henrietta Lacks unveiled in Bristol

Lacks, whose cells were used in multiple medical advances, is honoured by the city's university

There were tears of joy and pride as the first statue of a black woman created by a black woman for a public space in the UK was unveiled in a sunlit garden at the University of Bristol.

Three generations of of Henrietta Lacks' family travelled from the US for the unveiling of the bronze statue of her, sculpted by the Bristol artist and campaigner Helen Wilson-Roe.