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If you are Black in America, chances are you know of someone who needs an organ donation. But how many of us have filled out an organ donation card? According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, African-Americans compose the largest group of minorities on the organ donation list at thirty percent, but only make up […]

A grieving mother who lost her teenage daughter provided the gift of life to one of her closest friends. Vicki Olds, of Illinois, lost her daughter, Domonique “Nikki” Smith, at age 18 last year but donated her child’s heart so that her friend could live, reports ABC News. The touching tale unfolded after Old’s daughter passed […]

  Jack D. Lynch is the Director of Community Affairs for the Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network. Born and raised on the…

A school bus has reportedly hit two children in the Taylorsville area Thursday morning. According to early media reports, Columbus police and Indiana State troopers are on the scene investigating this accident where a school bus from Taylorsville Elementary  apparently struck two students in the Colony Park neighborhood on Chaucer Drive. One student has been airlifted according […]