Laz Alonso: How he banked on Hollywood
theGRIO REPORT - Laz Alonso is a film actor with a laundry list of film credits. While passionate about his craft, acting was not always in the cards for Alonso...
Shirley Franklin: Atlanta's first female mayor
theGRIO REPORT - When Shirley Franklin was elected the 58th Mayor of Atlanta in 2001, she left two additional marks on the annals...
Leslie Frazier: Alcorn State's sportsman
theGRIO REPORT -While at Alcorn State University, Leslie Frazier was a standout sportsman....
Curtis Symonds: Businessman giving back to HBCUs
theGRIO REPORT - Curtis Symonds has had a long and successful career in television marketing...
Etu Evans: A shoe designer with soul
theGRIO REPORT - Even at the tender age of 6, Etu Evans exhibited entrepreneurial qualities. It was then that he started his first business in flower arrangement...
Will Packer: From FAMU to Bounce TV
theGRIO REPORT - When Will Packer passed on lucrative engineering jobs to pursue film he had no idea that he would one day be named one of the Most Powerful Players Under 40 by Black Enterprise...
Jessye Norman: The Howard woman with the diva voice
theGRIO REPORT - While still a young college student at Howard University studying voice, Jessye Norman had already begun to make a name for herself...
Wanda Sykes: Hampton University's funny woman
theGRIO REPORT - It is hard to believe that funny woman Wanda Sykes worked as anything other than an entertainer...
Rosalind Brewer: A blueprint to climb the corporate ladder
theGRIO REPORT - It should not come as a surprise that Rosalind Brewer was named one of Fortune magazine's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business in 2010...
Jerry Rice: Mississippi Valley State's NFL great
theGRIO REPORT - If it was not for a run-in with his high school principal for cutting school, Jerry Rice may not have gone on to break numerous football records and become one of the leagues most dynamic players..
