TheGrio's 100: Linda Fondren, moving Mississippi to get healthy
TheGrio's 100 - After obesity factored in her sister's death, Linda Fondren made it her mission to get Mississippi, the country's most overweight state, into shape...
TheGrio's 100: Velma Scantlebury, transplant surgeon seeks more minority donors
TheGrio's 100 - As America's first female African-American transplant surgeon, Velma Scantlebury wants to see more people of color in the operating room -- be it holding a scalpel, or on the table...
TheGrio's 100: Nia Froome, teenager makes dough off vegan desserts
TheGrio's 100 - This high school senior from Long Island, New York was motivated by her mom's battle with breast cancer to make vegan food more accessible -- and delicious...
TheGrio's 100: Lisa Newman, fighting breast cancer on two continents
TheGrio's 100 - Lisa Newman's 16-hour journey to Ghana from her Michigan hospital is only a step in the surgeon's mission to understand the nature of difficult-to-treat triple negative breast cancer...
TheGrio's 100: Eugene Sawyer, bringing health care to Detroit's uninsured
TheGrio's 100 - Eugene Sawyer and Second Grace United Methodist Church have given impoverished Detroit dwellers a second chance at health...
TheGrio's 100: Carnell Cooper, treating victims of violence outside the ER
TheGrio's 100 - Dr. Cooper maintains a 60-hour work week, personally mentors two VIP clients, attends court hearings and even visits patients in jail...
TheGrio's 100: Aaron Shirley, using Iranian solutions for US health problems
TheGrio's 100 - Shirley pioneered the incorporation of clinics in city high schools, which reduced teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, drug, abuse and teenage violence...
TheGrio's 100: Winston Gandy, filling the gaps for health care have-nots
TheGrio's 100 - Dr. Winston Gandy understands that America's uneven access to health care is deadly. People of color live an average of six years fewer than their white counterparts...
Black Harvard doctor pens memoir of Jim Crow South
BOSTON (AP) - The book covers his life as the first African-American to graduate from Stanford Medical School and becoming the first black department head at Harvard's teaching hospitals...
TheGrio's 100: Will Allen, good food revolutionary
VIDEO - TheGrios 100 - Will Allen of Growing Power aims to help bring about the "good food revolution...
