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