Stories
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Running Toward Life
2019 St. Jude Memphis Marathon
12/07/2019
More than 26,000 runners showed their support for the patients of St. Jude during the 2019 St. Jude Memphis Marathon.
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Running Toward Life
2019 St. Jude Memphis Marathon
12/07/2019
More than 26,000 runners zig-zag across downtown Memphis during the 2019 St. Jude Memphis Marathon
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Running Toward Life
Signs of a Marathon
12/07/2019
Throughout the course of the St. Jude Memphis Marathon, supporters craft homemade signs of appreciation and humor to encourage the more than 26,000 runners participating.
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St. Jude Inspire
How Running the Athens Marathon Showed Me the Global Heart of St. Jude
12/06/2019
Lexie Johnston is a St. Jude Hero from Memphis who recently ran the Athens Marathon. She writes about how the experience helped her realize the truly global nature of St. Jude.
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Running Toward Life
In Honor of Alexis, a Family Comes Together as Runners
12/06/2019
Six weeks ago, 15-year-old St. Jude patient Alexis passed away. Her family, including her 80-year-old grandfather, will honor her by running during the St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend.
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Inspired Questions
Inspired Questions: Jackie Aina
12/06/2019
Beauty YouTuber Jackie Aina would still be a MUA even if she wasn’t on YouTube — and she has the perfect word to describe St. Jude.
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St. Jude Place
Newest St. Jude Employees Puggle and Huckleberry Offer Furry Comfort
12/06/2019
Two specially-trained dogs at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital work with patients to help them meet clinical goals, easing fears and calming patients during challenging situations.
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Running Toward Life
Meet the Foot Soldiers Behind the St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend
12/04/2019
Volunteers for the St. Jude Memphis Marathon devote time, passion and expertise toward finding a cure.
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Legacy
Legacy of a Cure: The Life of Dr. Brian Sorrentino
11/26/2019
In a race against time, Dr. Brian Sorrentino helped introduce the word 'cure' to the devastating disease known as bubble boy. He died of cancer just a week after seeing proof that his gene therapy worked.
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Selfless
A Son of Memphis, Devoted to a Cause That’s Close to Home
11/22/2019
Points of Light honors St. Jude volunteer Jason Farmer for his work in helping the hospital build relationships and raise awareness in the African-American community.
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Possibilities
After More Than Two Years of Chemo, 5-Year-Old Gets A Long-Awaited Brick
11/21/2019
Five-year-old Lily was done with treatment, as her “Straight Outta Chemo” T-shirt emphatically declared. Now she was on her way to behold a surprise, to see something she had been wanting for quite some time: a brick.
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Possibilities
Mary Browder’s LPGA moment comes during the CME Group Tour Championship
11/20/2019
Golf helped this St. Jude patient through cancer treatment. Now she plays competitively and had a place in the CME Group Tour Championship Pro-Am.
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Possibilities
The Story Behind the Photo: Gabe's First Steps
11/07/2019
In a widely shared photo, Gabe, a St. Jude patient, took his first steps without the aid of a walker at the St. Jude Walk/Run Minneapolis, nearly two years after brain surgery left him paralyzed. He was assisted by his hero, four-time Supercross champion and St. Jude supporter Ryan Dungey.
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Possibilities
St. Jude Patient Javon Shines on Game Day In Memphis
11/01/2019
Javon, his mom and his sister each were treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia at St. Jude. Now, he's a college freshman and a member of the Memphis Tigers' Mighty Sound of the South.
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Inspired Questions
Inspired Questions: Roman Reigns
10/22/2019
WWE Superstar Roman Reigns picks his dream opponents and explains his special connection with St. Jude patients.
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Running Toward Life
With New York City Marathon, St. Jude Hero Will Complete 50 Marathons in 50 States
10/18/2019
For the New York City Marathon, Steve is working toward a new goal of raising $262,000 — or $10,000 for every mile in a marathon. As Steve nears the completion of his 50-state run, his sights are set on what’s next. He knows he is not going to stop fundraising for cancer research — ever.
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Possibilities
After Facing Cancer Twice, One Family Finds a Second Home at St. Jude
10/18/2019
St. Jude successfully treated her sister. That gave Tiffany faith that the hospital could also help her son, Pepe.
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Inspired Questions
Inspired Questions: Río Roma
10/18/2019
Hermanos y cantadores Rio Roma visitan St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital y hablan sobre el amor, la inspiración y su secreto para llevarse bien.
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St. Jude Inspire
Songs That Help Me in Treatment and Life
10/15/2019
Paishence, 16, underwent years of physical therapy after being diagnosed with bone cancer in 2012. Now she wants to be known for her DJ skills, and was selected as one of the first St. Jude patients to curate a playlist for Apple Music.
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St. Jude Inspire
Building the Family Commons: Making a Long-time Dream Come True for St. Jude Families
10/14/2019
Janice English is a St. Jude nurse who serves as director of the Patient and Family Experience Office at St. Jude. Part of her job is bringing to life plans for the new Family Commons at St. Jude, a space created just for families to unwind and relax during treatment.
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Possibilities
Coming Home to St. Jude
10/04/2019
Khushi and her family love to visit the place of ‘big blessings’ after successful treatment for a rare cancerous tumor.
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Selfless
Carnival Cruise Line Reveals $15M Commitment for St. Jude During Day of Play
09/27/2019
After reaching its fundraising goal a year early, Carnival is ready to increase its support for St. Jude.
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St. Jude Place
Delivering Smiles: Amazon teams up with St. Jude to help kids with cancer
09/27/2019
Through its Amazon Goes Gold campaign, Amazon is supporting Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and inspiring St. Jude patients to have fun learning about science and technology.
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Running Toward Life
Training for Kona: 140.6 miles for St. Jude
09/27/2019
Triathlete Scott Sandlin has just weeks to prepare for his biggest fitness feat thus far: Representing the kids of St. Jude at IRONMAN Kona, one of the most prestigious endurance races in the world.
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St. Jude Inspire
Looking Back, Pressing Forward During Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
09/27/2019
The childhood cancer survival rate has increased from 20 percent to more than 80 percent since @StJude opened. But when your child falls into the other 20 percent, then that percentage is no longer acceptable, parent Paula Head writes.
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Selfless
United for Dylan, and St. Jude
09/18/2019
Dylan Witschen is gone but not forgotten as his hometown comes together to remember his legacy and support the St. Jude Walk/Run Minneapolis.
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Inspired Questions
Inspired Questions: Nick Eh 30
09/16/2019
YouTube and Twitch streamer Nick Eh 30 talks Lebanese food and the best Instagram accounts. Watch for a special fan cameo to close out the interview!
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Inspired Questions
Inspired Questions: Leon Bridges
09/16/2019
Soul singer, songwriter and record producer Leon Bridges takes the Inspired Questions chair to answers some questions.
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St. Jude Inspire
A Poem for My Son at Nine Years Old
09/13/2019
A St. Jude parent shares the sorrows and joys — and bittersweet milestones — of raising her child after cancer.
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Legacy
St. Jude A to Z
09/03/2019
H is for Hope: Take an A-to-Z look at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and how it came to be.
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St. Jude Inspire
#Lifegoals: Why I'm Running 15 Marathons for St. Jude
08/30/2019
1,532. This is the number of miles I have run since I decided to take full control of my health and begin training to run 15 marathons in one year as a St. Jude Hero.
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Selfless
Hog Wild for St. Jude: Ohio Boy Raises $15,000 with Homegrown Pig
08/23/2019
Seventh-grader Diesel Pippert has become a media sensation after he raised $15,000 for St. Jude – thanks to a prime pig he raised himself.
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Selfless
Relay FM Plans Podcast Fundraiser for St. Jude
08/22/2019
The founders of podcast company Relay FM will host a first-ever, six-hour “Relay FM for St. Jude" podcastathon from the campus of St. Jude and streamed live on Twitch.
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St. Jude Inspire
The Tao of Colin: Five Things My Son Taught Us About Life
08/21/2019
In 2018, the city of Ithaca, New York celebrated the life and mourned the loss of 10-year-old Colin Hayward-Toland, its youngest police officer. His mom, Tamiko Toland, writes about the lessons Colin still teaches us about how to live life to the fullest.
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Sessions
Breaking Benjamin: Time After Time
08/21/2019
Breaking Benjamin performs an acoustic cover of "Time After Time", live at St. Jude for patients and families.
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Sessions
Breaking Benjamin: Until The End
08/15/2019
Breaking Benjamin performs an acoustic version of "Until the End", live at St. Jude for patients and families.
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All Access
All Access: Breaking Benjamin
08/15/2019
Breaking Benjamin talks about their influences, how music has impacted their lives and why they support St. Jude.
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Inspired Questions
Inspired Questions: Anh Sundstrom
08/12/2019
Anh Sundstrom, the creator of 9to5chic.com, talks San Francisco favorites, what she wears in her down time and how she's connected with the mission of St. Jude.
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Inspired Questions
Inspired Questions: Khadeen Ellis
08/05/2019
Khadeen Ellis is a "Millennial mom," creating content for YouTube, podcasts and more with her husband and three kids.
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Moments
Path to the Podium
08/01/2019
A gymnast since she learned to walk, Jordyn has always been on a path to the podium. With the help of St. Jude and all those who support its life-saving mission, Jordyn is realizing her dream in the moment.
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Selfless
Par for the Cause
07/28/2019
St. Jude patients star alongside Brooks Koepka and the rest of the sport’s best at the World Golf Championships in Memphis.
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Possibilities
For the Love of Olivia
07/26/2019
She’s a 3-year-old girl facing leukemia, but not alone — Mom, Dad and her twin brother are with her every step.
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Possibilities
After Remarkable Cancer Journey, Teen Golfer Shines in a Tournament Full of Stars
07/23/2019
Having survived four bone marrow transplants with the help of St. Jude, Brennan takes his rightful place in a golf tournament full of luminaries.
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Possibilities
World Golf Championships: The Fall and Rise of Bailey
07/23/2019
Successfully treated by St. Jude, 14-year-old Bailey is the artistic inspiration behind FootJoy's custom shoes for PGA Tour pro golfer Justin Thomas.
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Possibilities
Dakota and Reid: A Pair of Aces at World Golf Championships
07/17/2019
A friendship born at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is playing out on the golf course for Dakota and Reid during the World Golf Championships FedEx St. Jude Invitational.
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Possibilities
Smyrna's Blessings: How One Teen Coped With Medulloblastoma
07/17/2019
A brain tumor interrupted Smyrna's plans for her 13th birthday, but she considers herself a better, happier person for what she’s lived through and her experiences at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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Possibilities
Artist's Work Tells A Story of St. Jude
07/09/2019
One prominent painter in the Memphis art scene has found a way to use his talents to give back to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, an institution that’s helping his teenage son deal with sickle cell disease.
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Selfless
Meet the College Kids Who Are Helping the Kids of St. Jude
07/02/2019
St. Jude Inspire caught up with several college students and campus advisors and they opened up about why they support the St. Jude mission.
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Selfless
With Sunshine and Hard Work, Community Garden Comes to Life
06/25/2019
Located just north of the campus of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the Uptown Community Garden is being brought back to life so it can grow vegetables, herbs and berries to supplement food sources in the neighborhood.
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Selfless
For NFL's Ben Leber, Connection to St. Jude is Personal
06/20/2019
Fifteen years after losing his nephew to brain cancer, football color commentator and former Minnesota Viking Ben Leber tells his family's story to support St. Jude.
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Selfless
Corvette Owners Drive Support for St. Jude
06/18/2019
The St. Jude Corvette Drive raises money for St. Jude and turns heads on the road from Illinois to Memphis.
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St. Jude Place
Pomp, Circumstance and Graduation
06/18/2019
The 2019 kindergarten class of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital featured thirteen youngsters donning caps and gowns, including patients from as far away as Nicaragua.
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Storied Lives
Kris Xifos: A Survivor's Survivor
06/14/2019
His young life threatened by a rare blood disorder, St. Jude patient Kris Xifos grew up to serve his country as a Marine in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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St. Jude Inspire
Khadeen Ellis: How Millennials Can Use Social Media for Good
06/12/2019
Khadeen Ellis, an actress, TV host and mom of three, talks about how she learned to use her social influence to make a difference for St. Jude.
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Selfless
Singing the Praises of St. Jude
06/07/2019
Darius Rucker puts his big heart, soulful voice and fundraising muscle into his favorite cause — helping kids.
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Selfless
Chip Gaines and friends launch celebrity fundraiser for St. Jude
06/04/2019
Chip Gaines is rounding up some celebrity friends to help St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and creating a social-media fundraising competition, the #ChipInChallenge for St. Jude.
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St. Jude Place
Teen Formal: A Night of Fun for St. Jude Patients
05/20/2019
Groundbreaking research and lifesaving treatment are St. Jude's hallmarks, but the hospital's annual Teen Formal is a time for friends and fun.
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Inspired Questions
Inspired Questions: DrLupo & MrsDrLupo
05/16/2019
Gaming dream team DrLupo and MrsDrLupo talk about their favorites, explain the wrong way to eat pizza and share how they found their purpose through St. Jude.
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Selfless
Jack Vosse: Leaving a Legacy for St. Jude
05/10/2019
A long-time St. Jude donor, Jack Vosse sheepishly admits he crashed the opening of the hospital in 1962. In the years since, he's learned supporting St. Jude requires no special invitation.
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Legacy
Jack Vosse: Leaving a Legacy for St. Jude
05/10/2019
A long-time St. Jude donor, Jack Vosse sheepishly admits he crashed the opening of the hospital in 1962. In the years since, he's learned supporting St. Jude requires no special invitation.
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Inspired Questions
Elizabeth Olsen
05/02/2019
Scarlet Witch, aka Wanda Maximoff, aka Elizabeth Olsen kicks off the Inspired Questions series with insight into her new hobbies, most challenging on-screen role and what moved her about St. Jude.
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Inspired Questions
Inspired Questions: Shalom Blac
05/02/2019
Shalom Blac, a beauty influencer with more than a million YouTube subscribers, answers about herself, where beauty really comes from and her first St. Jude experience.
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Running Toward Life
Football Stars Turn Fundraising Champs
05/01/2019
A team from hospital's hometown runs away with Touchdowns Against Cancer national title.
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Running Toward Life
Mission Possible: Adam's Army Sets its Sights on $1M
04/26/2019
Former St. Jude patient Adam is preparing to run the St. Jude Memphis Marathon in his mission to raise $1 million for St. Jude.
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Selfless
A Taste of Home
04/23/2019
Chef Adrianne Calvo's holiday meal for St. Jude is 'Hispanic at heart.' When she makes her special feast every year for the families of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, it's sure to include flan.
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Possibilities
Fast forward: A two-sport athlete, Owen is on course for success
04/18/2019
Owen discovered a love of running even as he was being treated for leukemia at St. Jude.
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Possibilities
A Dancer's Dream: Aubrey Takes The Stage
04/16/2019
As a baby, Aubrey met her milestones — walking, talking — on time. When she was 3 years old, her parents enrolled her in her first dance lessons. Aubrey quickly fell in love.
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Selfless
Supercross' Ryan Dungey Becomes Fast Friends with St. Jude Patient
04/02/2019
A dirt bike-loving boy named Gabe may have lost his dream of racing because of brain cancer, but he’s gained a buddy in Supercross legend Ryan Dungey.
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Storied Lives
Aiding Syrian Refugees: A Voice for the Voiceless
03/28/2019
At 31, Sean Kenney is a veteran aid worker, helping refugees and migrants in Lebanon. His compassion stems from the hardships he faced after having a brain tumor at age 3.
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Possibilities
From Singapore to St. Jude: Zahaan's Story
03/21/2019
A series of odd, eerie coincidences propelled a sick child and his family nearly 10,000 miles from Southeast Asia to St. Jude.
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Selfless
Sweethearts for St. Jude
03/15/2019
Cade Watson’s family and his supporters in places like Chilhowie and Damascus raised more than $104,000 last year. How does this area of the Appalachians do so much?
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Storied Lives
Making Art, Making Meaning
03/13/2019
When Michelle was treated for leukemia at St. Jude 45 years ago, her chances of survival were 50 percent. Now, she makes art to show her gratitude and support the hospital where survival rates have soared to 94 percent.
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Storied Lives
Art Imitates Life for Kris Keys
03/05/2019
Fashion designer and illustrator Kris Keys first learned to love painting as a child in a hospital bed. After traveling the globe, Kris still gets inspiration from the blood disorder that’s been with her since she was born.
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Selfless
Run Rich Run
03/02/2019
NFL Network anchor Rich Eisen’s fundraising and awareness campaign for St. Jude isn’t about speed. It isn’t even about style, though he dresses in suit and tie and dons flashy cleats while running his annual 40-yard dash at the NFL Scouting Combine.
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Storied Lives
An Open Door: Cedric's Story
02/26/2019
As the son of sharecroppers in the 1960s, two-year-old Cedric faced nearly insurmountable obstacles when he developed kidney cancer. St. Jude was there to help save his life.
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Selfless
Making History at St. Jude
02/21/2019
When St. Jude opened in 1962, Danny Thomas vowed the hospital would treat patients regardless of race, religion or ability to pay. In 1968, Dr. Rudolph Jackson became one of the first black doctors at St. Jude.
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Legacy
Making History at St. Jude
02/21/2019
When St. Jude opened in 1962, Danny Thomas vowed the hospital would treat patients regardless of race, religion or ability to pay. In 1968, Dr. Rudolph Jackson became one of the first black doctors at St. Jude.
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Selfless
Architect to Stars and St. Jude
02/20/2019
Paul Williams, an African-American architect who made his name designing homes for stars like Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball, donated his services to help his friend Danny Thomas build St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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Legacy
Architect to Stars and St. Jude
02/20/2019
Paul Williams, an African-American architect who made his name designing homes for stars like Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball, donated his services to help his friend Danny Thomas build St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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Possibilities
The Longest Lap
02/18/2019
After a summer lost to cancer treatment, Katherine has found her way back into the swimming pool and back into the stream of high school life. She's faced bigger challenges - life and death challenges - and prevailed.
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Selfless
Feast Honors Daughter's Memory
02/01/2019
St. Jude S'travaganza — the annual feast and football watch party that's become Arkansas' largest fundraiser for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital — carries on one girl's memory and raises millions to help children like her all over the world.
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Selfless
Celebrating Country Cares
01/24/2019
This year St. Jude is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Country Cares, which began after Danny Thomas approached Alabama lead singer Randy Owen. The result is nothing less than one of country music’s greatest hits ever.
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Selfless
Country Cares Turns 30
01/24/2019
2019 marks the 30th anniversary of Country Cares for St. Jude Kids. The fundraising program started by country music legend Randy Owen has raised more than $800 million for St. Jude over the last three decades.
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Selfless
The Day Danny Thomas Visited KSON
01/23/2019
If you’re telling the story of Country Cares — one of the most successful fundraising campaigns in radio history — you have to turn the dial to 103.7. San Diego’s KSON has raised millions for St. Jude and created unforgettable memories.
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Selfless
Healing and Harmony
01/17/2019
Country music fans love duets, and those famed pairings have produced some classics. But the best duet of all may be the one the genre has been singing for three decades with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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Selfless
Peoria Proud
01/17/2019
You’d be hard-pressed to find a place more in step with St. Jude than the Illinois city behind the Memphis to Peoria Run. It started small — a handful of runners, a motorhome, a couple of vans and a crazy notion. Today, it's raised $56.2 million in its history.
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Storied Lives
'The Royal Wedding of St. Jude'
01/17/2019
Lindsey Wilkerson and Joel Alsup — cancer survivors, co-workers and friends since childhood — were married on the campus of St. Jude, a hospital that didn’t simply heal them but saved their lives and shaped them, in profound ways.
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Storied Lives
'You're The Reason I Built This Hospital'
01/17/2019
Danny Thomas said it would be worth building St. Jude Children's Research Hospital if it saved just one child’s life. He might have been talking about an Arkansas country boy named Dwight Tosh. Tosh was St. Jude patient number 17.
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Possibilities
Running, Resilience and a 'Robot Leg'
01/17/2019
Mack is a boy in motion. He runs and jumps and tumbles as much as any 9-year-old. He's also a cancer survivor and amputee, but that becomes an afterthought in his day-to-day life, at school and on the basketball court.
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Possibilities
Nick's Song: Heart and Hard Truths
01/17/2019
He was a quiet kid with a gift for basketball — and a cancer diagnosis. Now, he's a teenager transformed, rapping his St. Jude story with survivor songs full of rhyme and raw emotion, a soundtrack to a teenager's two-and-a-half year journey through darkness to light.
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St. Jude Place
Music Strikes Chord with Patients
01/17/2019
As a music therapist, Amy Love will tell you music is not only a necessary part of treatment. It’s a learning tool, a coping mechanism, a creative outlet, and a sure-fire way to spark that sweetest of sounds — children laughing, playing and having fun.
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St. Jude Place
It's How They Roll
01/17/2019
St. Jude’s iconic red wagons are all around the hospital, these vehicles of hope and transport, these symbols of childhood and of the St. Jude philosophy of tending to the patient’s emotional as well as physical state.
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Moments
Three Generations of Tayde
01/17/2019
At 7 years old, Tayde was diagnosed with leukemia. She and her family traveled from Mexico to receive treatment at St. Jude. Today, with her cancer in remission, Tayde is grateful to be able to give back to the hospital where her life was saved.
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Moments
Nick Reclaims His Dream
01/17/2019
Nick was a rising talent in the basketball community until a cancer diagnosis interrupted his dreams.
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Moments
Unfinished Business
01/17/2019
At 15 years old, Chandler was just about to begin training for a half-marathon when he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. After 2-plus years of treatment at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, he's finally about to toe the starting line.
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Moments
Hailey Takes the Spotlight
01/17/2019
St. Jude patient Hailey twice battled cancer. She has lost close friends to the same dreaded disease. Now her courageous fight and incredible voice have earned her an invitation to take her biggest stage yet for the moment of a lifetime.
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Moments
Austin's Dream Pick
01/17/2019
St. Jude patient Austin, an aspiring sports journalist, announces the Denver Broncos' first pick at the 2018 NFL Draft.
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Running Toward Life
A Race Like No Other
01/17/2019
The St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend is an unforgettable homecoming for everyone involved — when the St. Jude family reconnects with one another, encourages kids currently undergoing treatment and honors those who didn’t survive.
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Running Toward Life
One Big Family
11/29/2018
They first met in New York City, at a photo shoot for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital — two families on separate cancer journeys, but with so much common ground over which to bond.
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Selfless
Little Minden Leads the Way
02/12/2018
Looking for the very image of a quaint Southern town? Visit Minden, La. (Pop. 12,577). But sleepy? Not Minden. It’s too busy raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital with over four decades of devotion to the hospital.
