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TheGrio's 100: Robert Bullard, Father of environmental justice inspires next generation

By Brentin Mock

5:00 AM on 02/10/2010

TheGrio's 100 - For three decades Robert Bullard's been publishing reports and books that have spelled out precisely where environmental dangers lay...
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TheGrio's 100: Charles F. Bolden, Administrator of NASA, astronaut

By Brentin Mock

5:00 AM on 02/10/2010

TheGrio's 100 - Charles Bolden is the first African-American head of NASA...
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TheGrio's 100: Derrick Pitts, a star among the stars

By Brentin Mock

1:00 PM on 02/08/2010

TheGrio's 100 - Pitts brings a certain charisma to an otherwise dark, down-tempo discipline...
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TheGrio's 100: Shelton Johnson, park ranger bringing kids to nature

By Brentin Mock

8:00 AM on 02/06/2010

TheGrio's 100 - Shelton Johnson has worked in National Park service for more than 20 years. He did not grow up in a small town in the mountains, but in industrial Detroit...
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TheGrio's 100: Tony Hansberry, whiz-kid considered 'the next Charles Drew'

By Brentin Mock

12:00 PM on 02/03/2010

TheGrio's 100 - People in his Jacksonville, Florida home are calling him the "next Charles Drew"...
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TheGrio's 100: Lisa Jackson, Washington's lead environmentalist

By Brentin Mock

10:00 AM on 02/01/2010

TheGrio's 100 - Jackson's leadership comes at a pivotal time for the EPA in the nation's policymaking...
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TheGrio's 100: Dr. Agnes A. Day, leading microbiologist

By Bonnie Davis

5:04 AM on 02/01/2010

TheGrio's 100 - She uses her profound knowledge of science and microbiology to explain mankind's existence in terms understood by many...
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TheGrio's 100: James McLurkin, Engineer forges fleet of robots

By Brentin Mock

5:01 AM on 02/01/2010

The Grio's 100 - James McLurkin built his first robot in 1988. Today he produces software that can move a whole community of robots...
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TheGrio's 100: Jerome Ringo, proving blacks can go green

By Brentin Mock

5:00 AM on 02/01/2010

TheGrio's 100 - He's worked staunchly as an environmental justice advocate fighting for safer work conditions...
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African Americans continue to impact space exploration

By Allen Herbert

6:41 AM on 07/20/2009

Charles Bolden, Nominee for Administrator of NASA, testifying at his confirmation hearing before the senate (AP Photo/Bill Ingalls, NASA) Attending the confirmation hearing for Charles Bolden, Barack Obama's choice for NASA Administrator, and listening to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, Congressman Jim Clyburn and Senator Ben Nelson talk about Bolden's stellar...
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First black administrator of NASA confirmed

By theGrio via AP

3:40 PM on 07/16/2009

The Senate confirmed on Wednesday retired astronaut Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden as administrator of NASA, just in time for the space agency's 40th anniversary celebrations of man's first steps on the moon...
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419 slaves laid to rest in modern day New York City

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12:00 PM on 02/02/2009

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African American woman becomes first female rocket scientist

By theGrio

11:42 AM on 02/02/2009

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Social scientists refute theory of black intellectual inferiority

By theGrio

11:36 AM on 02/02/2009

Dr. Otto Klineberg and Dr. Anne Anastasi discuss how segregated learning environments affects the intellectual achievement of African-American students....
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TheGrio's 100: Beverly Wright, Bringing environmental justice to post-Katrina New Orleans

By Brentin Mock

4:55 PM on 02/01/2009

TheGrio's 100 - New Orleans would not be the same, and many black families would not be safely back at their homes, if not for the efforts of Dr. Beverly Wright...
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