Why Is Cervical Cancer Killing So Many Black Women in the South? Listen Download Embed Share Share this on Facebook (Opens in a new window) Share this on Twitter (Opens in a new window) Share this via Email Ms. Frances Ford, executive director of Sowing Seeds of Hope, in her home in August 2018, holding a picture of her mother, who died from cervical cancer after being diagnosed in 1980. ( 2018 Roopa Gogineni for Human Rights Watch ) Produced by PRI and WNYC