TheGrio's 100: Don Peebles, college dropout crowned real-estate king
TheGrio's 100 - Raised by his single, teenage mother, Peebles vowed he would gain financial security for himself -- a promise that drove him to take an unconventional path to success...
TheGrio's 100: Tim Scott, beating the odds as black GOP congressman
TheGrio's 100 - When Tim Scott took office on January 3, he became the first African-American Republican congressman from South Carolina since 1897...
TheGrio's 100: Terrance Roberts, keeping Denver students out of gangs
TheGrio's 100 - Terrance Roberts tells high school students they'll have 700 days after joining a gang until they're in a cemetery or a wheelchair. For Roberts, it was the latter...
TheGrio's 100: Shaun King, leveraging social media for greater good
TheGrio's 100 - With TwitChange.com, Shaun King leveraged Twitter to address the Haitian earthquake's aftermath...
TheGrio's 100: Larry Camel, pastor patrolling against violence
TheGrio's 100 - Pastor Larry Camel could not sit idle when his small city of Saginaw, MI saw 17 homicides in 2007...
TheGrio's 100: Joshua Williams, pint-sized philanthropist shares big heart
TheGrio's 100 - At the age of 5, philanthropist Joshua Williams decided to stomp out hunger in the Miami region -- "so that all children would be as full as I am"...
TheGrio's 100: Rosalind Brewer, Wal-Mart leader breaks Fortune 500 glass ceiling
TheGrio's 100 - If Wal-Mart South were its own company, president Rosalind Brewer would be running the 21st largest corporation on the 2010 Fortune 500 list...
TheGrio's 100: Jawanza Colvin, preaching across generations — from Joshua to Jay-Z
TheGrio's 100 - When 35-year-old Reverend Jawanza Karriem Lightfoot Colvin took the pulpit at Cleveland's Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, he had big sermons to fill...
TheGrio's 100: Terry Kennedy, skateboarding to his own beat
TheGrio's 100 - To many, skateboarding is just the stuff of rebellious teenagers. But Terry Kennedy found refuge in that rebellion...
TheGrio's 100: J. Cole, 'Who Dat?' rapper asking 'What's next?'
TheGrio's 100 - As the first artist signed to Jay Z's label, Roc Nation, previously-underground rapper J. Cole gained overnight name recognition, with the music industry asking, 'Who Dat?'...
