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 - 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'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 - 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 - 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 - 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...
FORT JACKSON, S.C. (AP) - First lady Michelle Obama is visiting the Army's largest training post to see how the military turns couch potato recruits into nutrition-minded soldiers...
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - He says he has been living with pain in his lower extremities, face and side for years and adds marijuana provides the only relief he can find...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Davida Johnson walked into Dr. Kermit Gosnell's clinic to get an abortion in 2001, she saw what she described as dazed women sitting in dirty, bloodstained recliners...