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Lawrence McRae

Lawrence McRae

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

As a black man who survived prostate cancer, McRae had beaten the odds. In the United States, African American men have the highest mortality rate for that form of cancer of any racial or ethnic group. (They die at a rate 2.4 times higher than their white...
Marilyn Gaston and Gayle Porter

Marilyn Gaston and Gayle Porter

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

African American women are dying at rates that are greater than any other group of women in the United States — and most of these deaths are preventable. That fact inspired Marilyn Gaston (left) and Gayle Porter (right), both accomplished health professionals to...
W. Frederick Shaw

W. Frederick Shaw

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Shaw had been an elementary school teacher and a college professor before he began a 40-year career in international development. He was a faculty member at the School for International Training in Vermont when he was offered the opportunity to implement development...
Shirley Rose

Shirley Rose

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

When her husband died after suffering a series of strokes, Shirley Rose, at age 77, founded the American Stroke Foundation (ASF) to provide stroke survivors and their families in the Kansas City area the support, training, and mentoring for both survivors and...
Carole Artigiani

Carole Artigiani

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Throughout her career as an educator, Carole Artigiani, 69, was impressed with her students’ response to opportunities to learn and take action in addressing critical issues facing their own and communities around the world. She was determined to nurture these...