Community Center

When Desmond was born, his mother called him the “glass baby.”“He was so small and so delicate,” she recalls, “that when he swelled, he looked like his skin would…

Just three days after becoming a new mother, Rosa received the letter in the mail that would change everything.She sat down and cried. Fear. Guilt. Tears.Sickle…

Siblings Marcus and Emma both live with sickle cell disease, a group of inherited red blood cell disorders.Their parents, Angela and Marcus Sr., turned to the…

It is high noon, and the hospital’s main lobby is pulsing with energy…Patients and families are checking in for appointments, doctors and nurses stride by with…

The first thing you must check before even considering asking a person with sickle cell out on a date is your genotype. If by now you still don’t know your genotype…