theGrios 100

All Articles

February 2, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - In 2009, with a deficit of $219 million, the Detroit Public School system was in a state…
February 2, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - The National Science Foundation keeps American colleges and universities on the cutting edge of technology, funding 20…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio.com and Foursquare have teamed up to create a black history "badge". Foursquare users can check in at more than…
February 1, 2011
theGrio.com, wanted to talk about the future. We wanted to predict who would make up the next generation of history…
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
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
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 - 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 - 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 - From clean energy to ethnic diversity, Erica Williams aims to advocate on the issues that Americans under…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - While other congressmen cite their voting records for proof of their convictions, Rep. Donna Edwards can point…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - In the face of looming budget cuts and daunting drop-out rates, Tamica Stubbs inspired her underprivileged Charlotte,…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - A seasoned television news correspondent, Rehema Ellis has reported on everything from Obama's inauguration to Hurricane Katrina,…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Kittie Weston-Knauer, one of the first competitive female BMX racers in the United States, is no stranger…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - President Obama set the goal for the U.S. to have the highest proportion of college graduates in…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Derrell Bradford's determination to give parents the freedom of school choice has made the former writer integral…