TheGrio's 100: Lisa Newman, fighting breast cancer on two continents
TheGrio's 100 - Lisa Newman's 16-hour journey to Ghana from her Michigan hospital is only a step in the surgeon's mission to understand the nature of difficult-to-treat triple negative breast cancer...
TheGrio's 100: Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, pushing green so Wall Street stays out of red
TheGrio's 100 - As CEO of Green for All, Ellis-Lamkins organizes minority and disadvantaged communities to unite and advocate for green jobs...
TheGrio's 100: Njema Frazier, nuclear weapons physicist developing future scientists
TheGrio's 100 - Physicist Njema Frazier develops the codes for weapons simulations, creating computer models to test the hypothetical safety, performance, and reliability of aging warheads...
TheGrio's 100: Monique Harden, calling for justice against environmental racism
TheGrio's 100 - As an outspoken activist for Gulf Coast residents, Monique Harden has gained a reputation as the first line of defense for the rights of citizens to live in healthy and safe conditions...
TheGrio's 100: Eugene Sawyer, bringing health care to Detroit's uninsured
TheGrio's 100 - Eugene Sawyer and Second Grace United Methodist Church have given impoverished Detroit dwellers a second chance at health...
TheGrio's 100: Faye Alexander Nelson, bringing green to industrial Detroit
TheGrio's 100 - Faye Alexander Nelson has spent the last eight years turning a strip of Detroit, once an industrial no-man's-land, into a beautiful riverfront park...
TheGrio's 100: Donya Douglas, bringing NASA know-how down to earth
TheGrio's 100 - Think laptops are cool? Thank Donya Douglas, an instrument systems engineer at NASA conducting temperature control research to avoid loss of performance in spacecraft...
TheGrio's 100: André Fenton, neuroscientist may erase painful memories
TheGrio's 100 - Neuroscientists have long sought physical evidence of memory, and Fenton and his fellow researches at NYU have found a piece of the puzzle in molecule PKMzeta...
TheGrio's 100: Carnell Cooper, treating victims of violence outside the ER
TheGrio's 100 - Dr. Cooper maintains a 60-hour work week, personally mentors two VIP clients, attends court hearings and even visits patients in jail...
TheGrio's 100: Aaron Shirley, using Iranian solutions for US health problems
TheGrio's 100 - Shirley pioneered the incorporation of clinics in city high schools, which reduced teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, drug, abuse and teenage violence...
