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Article: Being of service in King's honor: African-Americans respond to campaign to find minority bone marrow donors.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- January 16, 2007
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Byline: Tom Pelton
Jan. 16--Tania Laguerre, a 34-year-old supervisor at NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, heard from her boss about a campaign to get more minorities to volunteer as potential bone marrow donors.
So Laguerre, an African-American, used her holiday yesterday to drive to the Park School in Pikesville, where she signed up at an outreach event designed to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. "There are a lot of areas where minorities are shortchanged, and if there are any areas where I can help out, that's my goal," said Laguerre as she filled out an application. Unlike blood donors, whose race doesn't matter, the ...