Loading the player… Diane Austin shared with PEOPLE the inspiration behind her hair company, Coils To Locs, and opened up about her journey through cancer and motherhood. Read More: Dr. Jackie urges women to screen for cervical cancer Austin revealed a nervousness to share with her now 23-year-old daughter Paige her cancer diagnosis. At the… Read More: Cancer survivor creates curly wigs after not being able to… »
Know Your Girls is committed to educating Black women about breast cancer. As part of their campaign to educate and inform Black women about their cancer risks, they connected TheGrio with Nikia Hammonds-Blakely, a survivor who was diagnosed at 16 years old. “I was in the shower one morning getting ready for school and I felt the… Read More: Know Your Girls: Breast cancer survivor diagnosed at 16 shares… »
At 20 years of age, Emma Pryse Jones is a bright, bubbly, soon-to-be masters student whose work and study are focused around helping others. Yet it wasn’t too long ago that the future of the CSU Bathurst sport and exercise science student was in the hands of her health team. When Miss Pryse Jones was… Read More: ‘I knew I was dying’: Survivor shares her eating disorder… »
Mona Randolph relies on one of the 700-lb. devices to keep her alive. With just three remaining in the United States, iron lungs are nearly obsolete — but Mona Randolph, a polio survivor, relies on one of the 700-lb. devices to keep her alive. The 82-year-old Randolph has used the device on and off since… Read More: Polio Survivor, 82, Is One of the Last 3 People… »