Last year, Kevin Weston was riding high. He had just won a journalism fellowship at Stanford, and was raising two daughters with his partner Lateefah Simon, a civil rights activist and MacArthur Genius fellow. Then doctors told him he had leukemia, and needed to find a bone marrow donor by the end of the month. But Kevin is African-American — and African-Americans comprise only 7 percent of registered donors. Kevin and Lateefah join us to share their story. We’ll also discuss the low rate of minority donor participation and the long road to a successful transplant.
- More: Kevin and Lateefah’s story, and how to help – at KevinAndLateefah.com
- More: Be the Match (National Marrow Donor Program) – at Marrow.org
- More: The Help Kevin Weston Facebook group
- More: About the Asian American Donor Program (AADP.org)