Service and Activism

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January 30, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Alie Kabba is the executive director of the United African Organization, a Chicago-based group comprised of multiple…
April 13, 2010
VIDEO - Judge Greg Mathis discusses his new activist program to help youth offenders and prison inmates build careers and…
April 6, 2010
VIDEO - Only 11 percent of students in the first generation of their families to graduate college successfully complete school,…
April 5, 2010
From The Washington Post - VIDEO - Bucking the trend of the "Me Generation", George Washington Univ. students and staff…
March 29, 2010
SLIDESHOW - From caregivers and laborers to CEOs and scientists, black women have held pivotal leadership roles in building America…
March 8, 2010
VIDEO - Nearly four thousand babies are born at Chicago's Mt. Sinai Hospital each year. To each mother, any gift,…
February 9, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - Don't be fooled by DuBois' age, describing him as very capable and a gifted relationship-builder in religious…
February 8, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins became the first black district attorney in Texas. He didn't realize…
February 6, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - Long before the Haiti earthquake, Wyclef Jean was lifting his native land up...
February 5, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - Cory Booker took office as mayor of Newark, N.J., in 2006...
February 4, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - Majora Carter, 43, has been described as a green power broker and a visionary in environmentally sound…
February 3, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - Richard Buery Jr. is the president and CEO of the Children's Aid Society...
February 2, 2010
From The LA Times: Of the big events of the early civil rights movement, the sit-ins have always been the…
February 1, 2010
VIDEO - Marcus Garvey was born into the racial inequities of the colonial system of Jamaica. He decided to fight…
February 1, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - I think in general, in the black community, we don't necessarily talk about sex...
February 1, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - Alysa Stanton is the first black woman to become a rabbi in any mainstream Jewish denomination...
February 1, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - Major Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell is the first female African-American fighter pilot...
February 1, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - Did you know that it's cool to be black and green? Kari Fulton has been leading the…
December 20, 2009
VIDEO - In light of the discovery of raided graves at the cemetery where he was buried, theGrio looks back…
November 23, 2009
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Every day before heading to Little Rock Central High School in the fall of 1957,…