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TheGrio's 100: Aton Edwards, helping the world prepare for emergencies

1:24 AM on 01/31/2012

theGRIOs 100 - Aton Edwards helped found, and is the executive director of, the International Preparedness Network, which teaches civilians how to prepare for disasters...

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TheGrio's 100: Anthony Frasier, inner city dropout, succeeds in Silicon Valley

By Keosha Johnson

12:18 AM on 01/31/2012

theGRIO's 100 - Anthony Frasier, through determination and hard work, has become a formidable player in the online gaming world by founding a site called The Koalition...

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TheGrio's 100: Angela Benton, founder of Black Web 2.0, covers the black tech world

By Keosha Johnson

12:16 AM on 01/31/2012

theGRIO's 100 - Angela Benton founded Black Web Media in 2007 and created the site Black Web 2.0, which is dedicated to providing coverage of blacks in technology...

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TheGrio's 100: Daniell Washington, teaching youth the importance of water conservation

By Keosha Johnson

11:51 PM on 01/30/2012

theGRIOs 100 - Daniell Washington is marine biologist and activist who is reaching out to youth to teach them the importance of preserving the ocean and the water eco-system through her foundation called the Big Blue & You.

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TheGrio's 100: Corvida Raven, self-proclaimed 'Oprah of the web'

By Keosha Johnson

11:47 PM on 01/30/2012

theGRIOs 100 - She's 24 and rocks a Mohawk. Yet despite her youth and rebellious choice of hairstyle, Corvida Raven is making a name for herself as the creator of SheGeeks.net, a blog dedicated to all things technology related.

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TheGrio's 100: Chuck Baker, Founder of FileBlaze which makes saving information online easy

By Keosha Johnson

11:36 PM on 01/30/2012

thGRIO Report - Chuck Baker is the founder and CEO of FileBlaze, a cloud file-sharing company that allows users to back up, send, and receive an unlimited number of files instantly through a secure connection.

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TheGrio's 100: Chinedu Echeruo, founder of HopStop helps us navigate big cities

By Keosha Johnson

11:30 PM on 01/30/2012

theGRIOs 100 - New York City can be hard to get around if you're not from there. Ten years after making his own way around the city, Chinedu Echeruo created HopStop, an online city transit guide offering door-to-door directions from buses and subways.

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TheGrio's 100: MC Hammer, rapper, is now a tech innovator

By Keosha Johnson

9:00 PM on 01/30/2012

theGRIO's 100 - MC Hammer's music may no longer be heard on the airwaves, but the rapper is staying relevant through various ventures, most recently in technology...

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TheGrio's 100: Jana Johnson, budding techie breaks into computer technology

By Keosha Johnson

7:53 PM on 01/30/2012

theGRIO's 100 - Jana Johnson is a tech analyst at Goldman Sachs. The Columbia University graduate has been a leader in the intercollegiate Women & Computer Science program and an active participant in mentoring and teaching middle-school girls...

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TheGrio's 100: Doyle Beneby, President & CEO of CPS Energy

By Keosha Johnson

6:25 PM on 01/30/2012

theGRIOs 100 - Doyle Beneby is the president and CEO of CPS Energy in San Antonio, Texas. Beneby strives to keep the employees at CPS Energy safe and mentor youth.

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TheGrio's 100: Cora Marrett, holding US to higher standards for science education

By theGrio

12:42 AM on 02/02/2011

TheGrio's 100 - The National Science Foundation keeps American colleges and universities on the cutting edge of technology, funding 20 percent of all research done by U.S. institutions of higher learning -- to the tune of $6.5 billion...

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TheGrio's 100: John Dabiri, turning jellyfish motion into wind turbine technology

By theGrio

1:00 AM on 02/01/2011

TheGrio's 100 - This Nigerian-American professor at California Institute of Technology is making waves with his research on jellyfish locomotion and biomechanics...

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TheGrio's 100: Adriane Brown, improving the world by investing in intellectuals

By theGrio

1:00 AM on 02/01/2011

TheGrio's 100 - As president of Intellectual Ventures, a company that invests in inventors, Adriane Brown is in the business of innovation...

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TheGrio's 100: Bernard Harris, astronaut schooling next generation of space scientists

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12:48 AM on 02/01/2011

TheGrio's 100 - Legendary astronaut Bernard Harris has logged close to 200 hours in space and more than 2.9 million miles. That's 12 times the distance to the moon and back...

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TheGrio's 100: Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, pushing green so Wall Street stays out of red

By theGrio

12:43 AM on 02/01/2011

TheGrio's 100 - As CEO of Green for All, Ellis-Lamkins organizes minority and disadvantaged communities to unite and advocate for green jobs...

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TheGrio's 100: Njema Frazier, nuclear weapons physicist developing future scientists

By theGrio

12:43 AM on 02/01/2011

TheGrio's 100 - Physicist Njema Frazier develops the codes for weapons simulations, creating computer models to test the hypothetical safety, performance, and reliability of aging warheads...

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TheGrio's 100: Monique Harden, calling for justice against environmental racism

By theGrio

12:42 AM on 02/01/2011

TheGrio's 100 - As an outspoken activist for Gulf Coast residents, Monique Harden has gained a reputation as the first line of defense for the rights of citizens to live in healthy and safe conditions...

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TheGrio's 100: Faye Alexander Nelson, bringing green to industrial Detroit

By theGrio

12:42 AM on 02/01/2011

TheGrio's 100 - Faye Alexander Nelson has spent the last eight years turning a strip of Detroit, once an industrial no-man's-land, into a beautiful riverfront park...

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TheGrio's 100: Donya Douglas, bringing NASA know-how down to earth

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12:42 AM on 02/01/2011

TheGrio's 100 - Think laptops are cool? Thank Donya Douglas, an instrument systems engineer at NASA conducting temperature control research to avoid loss of performance in spacecraft...

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TheGrio's 100: André Fenton, neuroscientist may erase painful memories

By theGrio

12:42 AM on 02/01/2011

TheGrio's 100 - Neuroscientists have long sought physical evidence of memory, and Fenton and his fellow researches at NYU have found a piece of the puzzle in molecule PKMzeta...

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