CNN: Tuskegee's Ghosts: Fear Hinders Black Marrow Donation
February 7, 2007: CNN takes a look at need for minority bone marrow donation, interviewing Jessica Pasley of Franklin, Tennessee. "When her twin daughters, Jillian and Jade, were found to have leukemia as toddlers, she and her husband worked with churches and other groups to organize bone marrow drives. The Pasleys, who are African-American, never got more than about a hundred people from any one church. Pasley says she saw white families get about 1,500 potential donors from one church."
The Pasleys have created “Jade’s Fund.” The fund helps families served at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt through the childhood cancer program at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
