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TheGrio’s 100 – In the face of looming budget cuts and daunting drop-out rates, Tamica Stubbs inspired her underprivileged Charlotte, N.C., students to embrace the sciences…
TheGrio’s 100 – A seasoned television news correspondent, Rehema Ellis has reported on everything from Obama’s inauguration to Hurricane Katrina, from Michael Jackson’s death to September 11th…
TheGrio’s 100 – This high school senior from Long Island, New York was motivated by her mom’s battle with breast cancer to make vegan food more accessible — and delicious…
TheGrio’s 100 – Kittie Weston-Knauer, one of the first competitive female BMX racers in the United States, is no stranger to overcoming adversity…
TheGrio’s 100 – President Obama set the goal for the U.S. to have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020 – and then appointed John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. to help reach it…
TheGrio’s 100 – Derrell Bradford’s determination to give parents the freedom of school choice has made the former writer integral to the fight for U.S. education reform…
TheGrio’s 100 – With a fresh perspective on education based on design, Tyus is drawing up new blueprints for her students’ scholastic lives….
TheGrio’s 100 – Legendary astronaut Bernard Harris has logged close to 200 hours in space and more than 2.9 million miles. That’s 12 times the distance to the moon and back…
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 – As CEO of Green for All, Ellis-Lamkins organizes minority and disadvantaged communities to unite and advocate for green jobs…
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 – 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 and Second Grace United Methodist Church have given impoverished Detroit dwellers a second chance at health…
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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Shirley pioneered the incorporation of clinics in city high schools, which reduced teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, drug, abuse and teenage violence…
TheGrio’s 100 – When Marve Frazier joined Bossip.com in 2006, the domain name was worth $8. She’s since managed to attract millions of monthly visitors to the celebrity gossip site…
TheGrio’s 100 – Lolis Eric Elie’s passion for history and storytelling intersected with his home city’s destruction at the hands of Hurricane Katrina in 2005…