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TheGrio's 100: Joshua Dubois, Obama's Pastor-In-Chief

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TheGrio's 100 - Don't be fooled by DuBois' age, describing him as very capable and a gifted relationship-builder in religious circles...
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TheGrio's 100: Craig Watkins, a Texas DA using DNA for justice

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TheGrio's 100 - Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins became the first black district attorney in Texas. He didn't realize he was making state history...
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TheGrio's 100: Wyclef Jean, musician, Haitian native son and activist

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TheGrio's 100 - Long before the Haiti earthquake, Wyclef Jean was lifting his native land up...
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TheGrio's 100: Cory Booker, Brick City mayor with a bright future

Ethyln Harris
TheGrio's 100 - Cory Booker took office as mayor of Newark, N.J., in 2006...
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TheGrio's 100: Majora Carter, a green powerbroker

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TheGrio's 100 - Majora Carter, 43, has been described as a green power broker and a visionary in environmentally sound urban renewal...
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TheGrio's 100: Richard R. Buery Jr, working for the children

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TheGrio's 100 - Richard Buery Jr. is the president and CEO of the Children's Aid Society...
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North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Chancellor Harold L. Martin, Sr., at center of banner, leads a commemorative march on Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 retracing the route the Greensboro Four walked to F. W. Woolworth 50 years ago to begin the sit-in movement at the Greensboro, N.C. lunch counter. The action sparked a movement of nonviolent protest across the South. (AP Photo/News & Record, Lynn Hey)

The sit-ins that changed America

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From The LA Times: Of the big events of the early civil rights movement, the sit-ins have always been the least understood and, yet, the most important for today's young activists...
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Featured Artifact – Rosa Parks Fingerprint CardIn 1955, Rosa Parks was riding on a crowded bus in Montgomery, Alabama. When she refused to give up her seat to a white man, the bus driver had her arrested. At the police station, she was fingerprinted. Her arrest triggered the Montgomery bus boycott and the civil rights movement.Photo credit: Mark Lyons, Courtesy of America I Am Exhibit.

Exhibit celebrates indelible imprint of blacks on history

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From The LA Times - History depends on who's doing the telling. When I was her age, people of color were asterisks, not narrators. Tomorrow's version will depend on today's storytellers...
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TheGrio's 100: Dr. Yolanda Wimberly, sex educator for life

Ethyln Harris
TheGrio's 100 - I think in general, in the black community, we don't necessarily talk about sex...
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TheGrio's 100: Rabbi Alysa Stanton, the new face of Judaism

Ethyln Harris
TheGrio's 100 - Alysa Stanton is the first black woman to become a rabbi in any mainstream Jewish denomination...
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