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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…
TheGrio's 100 - In 2009, DeMaurice Smith left law firm Patton Boggs to become the first NFL-outsider to run the…
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…
TheGrio's 100 - Before 25-year-old Cpl. Oliver and 39 other female Marines were deployed to interview rural Afghan women last…
TheGrio's 100 - Dale Long has a big family. A 34-year volunteer for Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Dallas native…
TheGrio's 100 - In the age of the Internet, Millennials have an increased access to political power -- they just…
TheGrio's 100 - Raised by his single, teenage mother, Peebles vowed he would gain financial security for himself -- a…
TheGrio's 100 - In Jay Pharoah's first year as a 'Saturday Night Live' cast member, the stand-up comedian has been…
TheGrio's 100 - When Tim Scott took office on January 3, he became the first African-American Republican congressman from South…
TheGrio's 100 - Terrance Roberts tells high school students they'll have 700 days after joining a gang until they're in…
TheGrio's 100 - Pastor Larry Camel could not sit idle when his small city of Saginaw, MI saw 17 homicides…
TheGrio's 100 - At the age of 5, philanthropist Joshua Williams decided to stomp out hunger in the Miami region…
TheGrio's 100 - If Wal-Mart South were its own company, president Rosalind Brewer would be running the 21st largest corporation…
TheGrio's 100 - When 35-year-old Reverend Jawanza Karriem Lightfoot Colvin took the pulpit at Cleveland's Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, he…
TheGrio's 100 - Kye Allums plays Division I women's basketball and he -- yes, he -- is only openly transgender…
TheGrio's 100 - To many, skateboarding is just the stuff of rebellious teenagers. But Terry Kennedy found refuge in that…
TheGrio's 100 - As the first artist signed to Jay Z's label, Roc Nation, previously-underground rapper J. Cole gained overnight…