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TheGrio's 100: Aaron Shirley, using Iranian solutions for US health problems

12:39 AM on 02/01/2011

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...

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TheGrio's 100: Winston Gandy, filling the gaps for health care have-nots

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12:04 AM on 02/01/2011

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...

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Black Harvard doctor pens memoir of Jim Crow South

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12:08 PM on 12/25/2010

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...

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TheGrio's 100: Will Allen, good food revolutionary

By Keosha Johnson

1:40 PM on 04/22/2010

VIDEO - TheGrios 100 - Will Allen of Growing Power aims to help bring about the "good food revolution...

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Obama: 'We are going to fix health care in America'

By theGrio

1:40 PM on 03/19/2010

FAIRFAX, Virginia (AP) - President Obama delivered a closing argument for the goal to which he has devoted much of his presidency...

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TheGrio's 100: Dr. Kathie-Ann Joseph, battling breast cancer and more

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1:00 PM on 02/26/2010

TheGrio's 100 - For Dr. Kathie-Ann Joseph, going into breast cancer research offered the double benefit...

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TheGrio's 100: Dr. Regina Benjamin, small-town doc now Surgeon General

By Keosha Johnson

5:05 AM on 02/25/2010

TheGrio's 100 - As U.S. Surgeon General, Benjamin has said she will work to make sure "no one falls through the cracks" in America's health care system...

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TheGrio's 100: Dr. Otis Brawley, straight talk on prostate cancer

By Keosha Johnson

5:00 AM on 02/23/2010

TheGrio's 100 - While Dr. Brawley said he has received his share of controversy for his views on cancer screenings, there are many who applaud his achievements...

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TheGrio's 100: Seun Adebiyi, fighting for his life and for others (VIDEO)

By Todd Johnson

8:18 AM on 02/02/2010

TheGrio's 100 - An Olympic hopeful and a fighter; Seun Adebiyi leads the Herculean feat of increasing minority bone marrow donor registration...

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TheGrio's 100: Helene Gayle, leading the fight against HIV/AIDS

By Keosha Johnson

5:00 AM on 02/01/2010

TheGrio's 100 - If you are an AIDS activist, chances are you have heard of Dr. Helene Gayle...

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TheGrio's 100: Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, hoping to heal health care

By Keosha Johnson

5:00 AM on 02/01/2010

TheGrio's 100 - Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey has medicine in her blood. The daughter of two physicians, Lavizzo-Mourey grew up in Seattle ...

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TheGrio's 100: Lisa Cooper, closing the racial gap in health care

By Keosha Johnson

5:00 AM on 02/01/2010

TheGrio's 100 - Dr. Cooper made headlines when she found that race is a factor in health care...

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TheGrio's 100: Treena Livingston Arinzeh, getting the root of stem cell science

By Keosha Johnson

5:00 AM on 02/01/2010

TheGrio's 100 - Dr. Arinzeh's discovery that adult stem cells can be transplanted from one person to another without rejection was a major advances in the fields...

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TheGrio's 100: Satira Streeter, psychologist for the inner-city

By Keosha Johnson

5:00 AM on 02/01/2010

TheGrio's 100 - Dr. Satira Streeter decided to set up her clinical psychology practice in a neighborhood that before her practice, had virtually no access to mental health services...

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For blacks, spanking has ties to slavery

By David A. Love

11:32 AM on 11/18/2009

OPINION - Beatings are still prevalent as a child-rearing tool in the African-American community, a practice which hearkens back to the days of slavery...

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The roots of 'good hair' are about survival, not beauty

By Lori L Tharps

7:52 AM on 10/09/2009

OPINION - The term "good hair" harks back to antebellum America, when slaves knew that the less African they appeared, the better treatment they would receive from slave owners...

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MLK Jr. would have dreamt about health care too

By Rev. Al Sharpton

9:00 AM on 08/28/2009

OPINION -- In today's age, what would Martin Luther King Jr. think about health care reform as a matter of civil rights...

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African American women and Breast Cancer

By theGrio

3:41 PM on 02/02/2009

In 2001, Vanessa McCaskill joined the ranks of millions of African-American women diagnosed with breast cancer. "I was only 36-years-old. To hear the word 'cancer,' it was unreal," said Ms. McCaskill. Statistics show that black women are less likely than whites to get breast cancer, but when they do, they're...

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