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TheGrio's 100 - As CEO of Green for All, Ellis-Lamkins organizes minority and disadvantaged communities to unite and advocate for…
TheGrio's 100 - Physicist Njema Frazier develops the codes for weapons simulations, creating computer models to test the hypothetical safety,…
TheGrio's 100 - As an outspoken activist for Gulf Coast residents, Monique Harden has gained a reputation as the first…
TheGrio's 100 - Eugene Sawyer and Second Grace United Methodist Church have given impoverished Detroit dwellers a second chance at…
TheGrio's 100 - Faye Alexander Nelson has spent the last eight years turning a strip of Detroit, once an industrial…
TheGrio's 100 - Think laptops are cool? Thank Donya Douglas, an instrument systems engineer at NASA conducting temperature control research…
TheGrio's 100 - Neuroscientists have long sought physical evidence of memory, and Fenton and his fellow researches at NYU have…
TheGrio's 100 - Dr. Cooper maintains a 60-hour work week, personally mentors two VIP clients, attends court hearings and even…
TheGrio's 100 - Shirley pioneered the incorporation of clinics in city high schools, which reduced teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease,…
TheGrio's 100 - Lolis Eric Elie's passion for history and storytelling intersected with his home city's destruction at the hands…
TheGrio's 100 - In 1990, Hallerin Hilton Hill had a wife, a one-year-old son, and no idea where their next…
TheGrio's 100 - Williams' portrayal of Omar Little, a shotgun-toting, dealer-robbing, openly gay thug on HBO's 'The Wire,' gained 2007's…
TheGrio's 100 - Bernal Smith is bringing the Tri-State Defender, a Memphis newspaper that played an important role in the…
TheGrio's 100 - Hamilton's first feature-length film, 'Night Catches Us,' stems from her fascination with a family friend's story of…
TheGrio's 100 - Trombonist Troy Andrews stepped into the spotlight last year with the release of his Grammy-nominated album, 'Backatown',…
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…
TheGrio's 100 - When the Louisiana Housing Authority planned to raze a public housing project in 2006, Tracie Washington sued…
TheGrio's 100 - This 30-year-old biology teacher was named varsity boys football coach of Coolidge High School last March, making…