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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…
TheGrio’s 100 – In 1990, Hallerin Hilton Hill had a wife, a one-year-old son, and no idea where their next meal was coming from…
TheGrio’s 100 – Williams’ portrayal of Omar Little, a shotgun-toting, dealer-robbing, openly gay thug on HBO’s ‘The Wire,’ gained 2007’s NAACP Image Award and an esteemed following…
TheGrio’s 100 – Bernal Smith is bringing the Tri-State Defender, a Memphis newspaper that played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement, into the 21st century…
TheGrio’s 100 – Hamilton’s first feature-length film, ‘Night Catches Us,’ stems from her fascination with a family friend’s story of receiving a one-year jail sentence for organizing a 1965 sit-in…
TheGrio’s 100 – Trombonist Troy Andrews stepped into the spotlight last year with the release of his Grammy-nominated album, ‘Backatown’, and over 180 sold-out shows performed across the country…
TheGrio’s 100 – Kenny Leon seeks out performance art that combines a sense of history with modern appeal…
TheGrio’s 100 – Opera won’t be seen as the stuff of stodgy aristocratic types if songstress Angela Brown has her say…
TheGrio’s 100 – When the Louisiana Housing Authority planned to raze a public housing project in 2006, Tracie Washington sued to block them in their tracks….
TheGrio’s 100 – This 30-year-old biology teacher was named varsity boys football coach of Coolidge High School last March, making her one of two women to hold such a position in America…
TheGrio’s 100 – Echoing Green CEO Cheryl Dorsey grants seed money to creative problem-solvers ready to implement life-changing ideas…
TheGrio’s 100 – After spending nine successful years in finance at Shearson Lehman Hutton, Beal founded one of the nation’s premier investment banking boutiques…
TheGrio’s 100 – In 2009, DeMaurice Smith left law firm Patton Boggs to become the first NFL-outsider to run the NFL Players’ Association…
TheGrio’s 100 – When Amiya Alexander’s friends couldn’t afford dance lessons, the then-9-year-old dancer decided to start her own studio…
TheGrio’s 100 – Dr. Winston Gandy understands that America’s uneven access to health care is deadly. People of color live an average of six years fewer than their white counterparts…
TheGrio’s 100 – Before 25-year-old Cpl. Oliver and 39 other female Marines were deployed to interview rural Afghan women last year, the U.S. military had no point of access to the female half of the population…
TheGrio’s 100 – Dale Long has a big family. A 34-year volunteer for Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Dallas native has mentored six Little Brothers from adolescence to adulthood…
TheGrio’s 100 – In the age of the Internet, Millennials have an increased access to political power — they just need a little help speaking out on their issues…
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 – In Jay Pharoah’s first year as a ‘Saturday Night Live’ cast member, the stand-up comedian has been playing to his strengths with a slew of spot-on celebrity impersonations…