TheGrio's 100: Terry Houston, bringing order to inner city high school
TheGrio's 100 - Inner-city students can go to college, and Roosevelt High School principal Terry Houston proves it every day...
TheGrio's 100: Dominique Lee, leading the way with teacher-led schools
TheGrio's 100 - Fed up with the troubled bureaucracy of inner-city schools, 25-year-old Teach for America alumnus Dominique Lee decided it was time for teachers to take charge...
TheGrio's 100: Jill Scott, R&B star broadens the future for college-bound kids
TheGrio's 100 - If Jill Scott isn't recording or touring for a Grammy-award winning album, chances are the soulful songstress is lending her voice to Blues Babe Foundation...
The men and women of theGrio's 100 'Service and Activism'
Every February TheGrio looks at the men and women who are making a difference in black communities and across the nation. In particular, the members of theG…
TheGrio's 100: Nicki Minaj, new 'queen of hip-hop' rules the charts
TheGrio's 100 - Badass Barbie Nicki Minaj was breaking hearts and Billboard records even before her debut LP, Pink Friday, dropped in November...
TheGrio's 100: Mattie Larson, gymnast flips for Team USA
TheGrio's 100 - Now a world-class gymnast with a 2010 silver world medal, the 18-year-old hasn't lost her knack for taking the mat and exceeding expectations...
TheGrio's 100: Tristan Walker, unlocking Foursquare's corporate partnerships
TheGrio's 100 - Tristan Walker has enabled a mobile social application, Foursquare, to completely transform location-based marketing since 2009...
TheGrio's 100: John Rice, changing the complexion of corporate America
TheGrio's 100 - With a Harvard MBA and management experience at Disney and the NBA, Rice founded Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) in 2000...
TheGrio's 100: Adriane Brown, improving the world by investing in intellectuals
TheGrio's 100 - As president of Intellectual Ventures, a company that invests in inventors, Adriane Brown is in the business of innovation...
TheGrio's 100: Ken Frazier, Merck CEO finds Fortune 100 success
TheGrio's 100 - As a volunteer attorney, Kenneth Frazier won the 1997 release of James "Bo" Cochran, who spent 19 years on death row for a murder he didn't commit...
