Walk for Lupus awareness next Saturday
On April 30, nearly 5,000 walkers are expected participate in the 5th Annual Walk for Lupus Now, one of the largest and most profitable lupus walks in the nation.
This year the Georgia Chapter of the Lupus Foundation of America hopes to raise $250,000 to increase awareness about the autoimmune disease which can affect any organ including the joints, kidneys, heart, lungs, brain, blood, or skin. An estimated 1.5 million Americans and at least five million people worldwide have a form of lupus.
The walk will begin at 4 p.m. at Piedmont Park.
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
