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TheGrio's 100 - Badass Barbie Nicki Minaj was breaking hearts and Billboard records even before her debut LP, Pink Friday,…
TheGrio's 100 - This Nigerian-American professor at California Institute of Technology is making waves with his research on jellyfish locomotion…
TheGrio's 100 - With a Harvard MBA and management experience at Disney and the NBA, Rice founded Management Leadership for…
TheGrio's 100 - Right-fielder Jason Heyward had a stunning MLB debut with the Atlanta Braves this year, hitting a three-run…
TheGrio's 100 - As a volunteer attorney, Kenneth Frazier won the 1997 release of James "Bo" Cochran, who spent 19…
TheGrio's 100 - The 28 points he scored in the final game against Turkey last summer gave the United States…
TheGrio's 100 - Thursday night NBC sitcoms are the major leagues of TV comedy, and Donald Glover knows how to…
TheGrio's 100 - Now a world-class gymnast with a 2010 silver world medal, the 18-year-old hasn't lost her knack for…
TheGrio's 100 - Edwidge Danticat writes novels to convey the deep and troubled history of her home, Haiti: a culturally…
TheGrio's 100 - With an average golf score of 73.53 and a 3.96 grade point, 16-year-old Maria Stackhouse is drawing…
TheGrio's 100 - As America's first female African-American transplant surgeon, Velma Scantlebury wants to see more people of color in…
TheGrio's 100 - This high school senior from Long Island, New York was motivated by her mom's battle with breast…
TheGrio's 100 - Lisa Newman's 16-hour journey to Ghana from her Michigan hospital is only a step in the surgeon's…
TheGrio's 100 - Eugene Sawyer and Second Grace United Methodist Church have given impoverished Detroit dwellers a second chance at…
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 - 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 - 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',…