All three young black men became board-certified doctors. Their early lives, college struggles, and victories are chronicled in "Pulse of Perseverance: Three Black Doctors on Their Journey to Success." The men chose Xavier, knowing that the nation's only historically black Catholic institution consistently places black students in medical school. He recalls one day when a young black man was shot in front of her apartment building. Johnson writes of being 3 when he and his mother frantically ran from his father "who was high out of his mind."

Source: Fox News May 13, 2018 13:22 UTC