Organ donation

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Prisoners organ donation -- Michael Lewis Georgia
February 3, 2023
HD.3822, a Massachusetts bill, would reduce incarcerated individuals' prison sentences in exchange for their donated organs.
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January 12, 2023
Until inequities in the system are addressed, too many Americans will die unnecessarily waiting for an organ transplant that never…
December 7, 2022
Parents Roy and Beverly shed light on gun violence, organ donation and continuing their 19-year-old’s legacy through a new foundation.
August 2, 2022
August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month, and many African Americans are in desperate need of life-saving organ transplants.
February 14, 2022
A chance encounter between a pair of former HBCU college roommates set the stage for a lifesaving organ donation.
September 17, 2021
Last spring, 50-year-old Scarface suffered a severe coronavirus case, given the MC's asthma history. By October, his kidneys had failed.
October 27, 2016
Roy Stuart, 15, was shot and killed, but despite the tragedy he is now saving lives because of organ donations…
August 16, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Needing a life-saving organ and getting one are two different things and the complicated process may not…
July 10, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The very public declaration of Usher Raymond’s stepson as brain dead highlights a little understood concept...
April 3, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - An iPod video addressing concerns about organ donation increased the number of African-Americans who registered as donors...
August 12, 2011
NBC 5 anchor/reporter, Kristi Nelson, is telling her touching, personal story of donating a kidney to her mother during a…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - As America's first female African-American transplant surgeon, Velma Scantlebury wants to see more people of color in…
August 13, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Shannon Tavarez has leukemia and will get an umbilical-cord blood transplant Tuesday...
April 27, 2010
OPINION - While African Americans comprise 13 percent of the U.S. population, we make up 35 percent of the individuals…
November 25, 2009
VIDEO - Once strangers, they're now forever connected, after exchanging priceless gifts. They swapped kidneys...
November 4, 2009
VIDEO - Patients in need of an organ transplant never know where the needed organ might be found. In the…
August 5, 2009
Currently, 35 percent of the 85,458 people on the wait list for kidney transplants are African Americans. Dr. J. Keith…