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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…
TheGrio’s 100 – Inner-city students can go to college, and Roosevelt High School principal Terry Houston proves it every day…
Every February TheGrio looks at the men and women who are making a difference in black communities and across the […]
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 – With a Harvard MBA and management experience at Disney and the NBA, Rice founded Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) in 2000…
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…
TheGrio’s 100 – Right-fielder Jason Heyward had a stunning MLB debut with the Atlanta Braves this year, hitting a three-run homer on his first swing as a major-leaguer…
TheGrio’s 100 – The 28 points he scored in the final game against Turkey last summer gave the United States their first world basketball championship title in 16 years…
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 – Edwidge Danticat writes novels to convey the deep and troubled history of her home, Haiti: a culturally rich, tragedy-prone country that most Americans know little about…
TheGrio’s 100 – Thursday night NBC sitcoms are the major leagues of TV comedy, and Donald Glover knows how to play the field…
TheGrio’s 100 – Burton will be supporting the new White House Press Secretary with the same press room prowess he’s brought to the briefing room since 2009…
TheGrio’s 100 – Mark Luckie spearheads interactive media strategy for The Washington Post’s national section, forging new ways for readers to interact…
TheGrio’s 100 – Fennell’s bold career jump from high-powered magazine manager to independent political fundraiser marked her as an impassioned influencer on the move…
TheGrio’s 100 – Tristan Walker has enabled a mobile social application, Foursquare, to completely transform location-based marketing since 2009…
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 – This Nigerian-American professor at California Institute of Technology is making waves with his research on jellyfish locomotion and biomechanics…
TheGrio’s 100 – From clean energy to ethnic diversity, Erica Williams aims to advocate on the issues that Americans under the age of 30 care about…
TheGrio’s 100 – While other congressmen cite their voting records for proof of their convictions, Rep. Donna Edwards can point to her police record…
TheGrio’s 100 – With an average golf score of 73.53 and a 3.96 grade point, 16-year-old Maria Stackhouse is drawing early comparisons to a young Tiger Woods…