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February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - In 1993, Lisa Price started Carol's Daughter, a multimillion-dollar beauty business, with $100 and a homemade lotion…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Fed up with the troubled bureaucracy of inner-city schools, 25-year-old Teach for America alumnus Dominique Lee decided…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - If Jill Scott isn't recording or touring for a Grammy-award winning album, chances are the soulful songstress…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Inner-city students can go to college, and Roosevelt High School principal Terry Houston proves it every day...
February 1, 2011
Every February TheGrio looks at the men and women who are making a difference in black communities and across the
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Badass Barbie Nicki Minaj was breaking hearts and Billboard records even before her debut LP, Pink Friday,…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - With a Harvard MBA and management experience at Disney and the NBA, Rice founded Management Leadership for…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - As a volunteer attorney, Kenneth Frazier won the 1997 release of James "Bo" Cochran, who spent 19…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Right-fielder Jason Heyward had a stunning MLB debut with the Atlanta Braves this year, hitting a three-run…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - The 28 points he scored in the final game against Turkey last summer gave the United States…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Now a world-class gymnast with a 2010 silver world medal, the 18-year-old hasn't lost her knack for…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Edwidge Danticat writes novels to convey the deep and troubled history of her home, Haiti: a culturally…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Thursday night NBC sitcoms are the major leagues of TV comedy, and Donald Glover knows how to…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Burton will be supporting the new White House Press Secretary with the same press room prowess he's…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Mark Luckie spearheads interactive media strategy for The Washington Post's national section, forging new ways for readers…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Fennell's bold career jump from high-powered magazine manager to independent political fundraiser marked her as an impassioned…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Tristan Walker has enabled a mobile social application, Foursquare, to completely transform location-based marketing since 2009...
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - As president of Intellectual Ventures, a company that invests in inventors, Adriane Brown is in the business…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - This Nigerian-American professor at California Institute of Technology is making waves with his research on jellyfish locomotion…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - From clean energy to ethnic diversity, Erica Williams aims to advocate on the issues that Americans under…