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TheGrio's 100: Nicole Lyons, car builder, drag racer and one of few women of color in the industry

8:29 AM on 02/08/2012

theGRIO's 100 - In 2005, Lyons became the first black woman in professional stock racing. The following year she built an 1,100 horsepower engine, which broke records...

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TheGrio's 100: Anthony Robles, NCAA wrestling champion wins big without second leg

By Keosha Johnson

8:22 AM on 02/08/2012

theGRIO's 100 - Born without a right leg, Anthony Robles has defied this challenge to win the 2010-2011 NCAA individual wrestling championship in the 125-pound weight class...

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TheGrio's 100: Nigel Sylvester, professional BMX rider takes life by the handlebars

By Keosha Johnson

9:00 AM on 02/07/2012

theGRIO's 100 - At first, Nigel was just a boy on his bike in Queens, NY. He's still on his bike years later, but this time it's a bike he designed and he's getting paid to be on it...

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TheGrio's 100: Cam Newton, NFL rookie and Heisman Trophy winner breaks records

By Keosha Johnson

11:11 PM on 02/04/2012

theGRIOs 100 - Cam Newton is making history in football. He is the third player ever to win the Heisman Trophy and be the first overall pick in the NFL draft within the same year...

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TheGrio's 100: Ibtihaj Muhammad, young Muslim changes the face of fencing

By Keosha Johnson

2:00 PM on 01/31/2012

theGRIO's 100 - Ibtihaj Muhammad is an African American Muslim and a professional fencer, about the rarest combination to set foot in a fencing match...

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TheGrio's 100: Laurel Richie, first black woman to head a national sports league

By Keosha Johnson

2:40 AM on 01/31/2012

theGRIO's 100 - Laurel Richie, as the president of the WNBA, has no sports background but decades of business and marketing experience...

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TheGrio's 100: Tia Norfleet, racing to become NASCAR's first black female driver

By Keosha Johnson

2:39 AM on 01/31/2012

theGRIO's 100 - Tia Norfleet is making history as the first and only woman to be issued a NASCAR license in the organization's 63-year history...

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TheGrio's 100: Jonathon Prince, 'athli-vist' organizing plans to run the first mile on the Moon

By Keosha Johnson

11:16 PM on 01/30/2012

theGRIO's 100 - Jonathon Prince did not spend most of his life as an athlete...

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TheGrio's 100: Jon 'Bones' Jones, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion youngest in history

By Keosha Johnson

11:15 PM on 01/30/2012

theGRIO's 100 - Jon 'Bones' Jones is the youngest Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) titleholder in history...

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TheGrio's 100: Justus Williams, 'LeBron James of chess' is the youngest black chess master

By Keosha Johnson

11:10 PM on 01/30/2012

In just four years, Bronx native Justus Williams went from chess novice to being awarded the level of chess master by the United States Chess Federation at age 12, becoming the youngest African American chess master in history.

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Muhammad Ali to attend Joe Frazier's funeral

By theGrio

8:22 AM on 11/11/2011

Muhammad Ali is heading to Philadelphia for the funeral of Joe Frazier. ..

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Forgotten Negro league players finally get recognition

By theGrio

4:50 PM on 07/20/2011

VIDEO - We are now in the thick of the season owned in large part by the boys of summer, carrying out America's past time nightly on major-league diamonds...

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Jackie Robinson's Montreal apartment commemorated

By theGrio

8:24 AM on 02/28/2011

MONTREAL (AP) - After a spring training in the segregated South, newlywed Rachel Robinson went to look at an apartment in a white neighborhood in Montreal...

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Former Negro Leagues pitcher Cecil Kaiser dies

By theGrio

4:28 PM on 02/14/2011

DETROIT (AP) - Cecil Kaiser, a diminutive left-hander who made $700 a month at the height of his Negro Leagues pitching career in the 1940s, died Monday at the age of 94...

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TheGrio's 100: Myron Rolle, Rhodes Scholar footballer with a heart

By theGrio

1:00 AM on 02/04/2011

TheGrio's 100 - On first glance, Myron Rolle appears to be three different, highly accomplished people living secretly under one alias...

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TheGrio's 100: Cullen Jones, Olympic swimmer dives in to teaching

By theGrio

8:16 AM on 02/03/2011

TheGrios 100 - Jones nearly drowned at a water park when he was 5. Less than 20 years after his near-death experience, he brought home a 2008 Olympic gold medal...

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TheGrio's 100: Mattie Larson, gymnast flips for Team USA

By theGrio

1:00 AM on 02/01/2011

TheGrio's 100 - Now a world-class gymnast with a 2010 silver world medal, the 18-year-old hasn't lost her knack for taking the mat and exceeding expectations...

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TheGrio's 100: Kevin Durant, NBA scoring champ rumbles as a Thunder

By theGrio

1:00 AM on 02/01/2011

TheGrio's 100 - The 28 points he scored in the final game against Turkey last summer gave the United States their first world basketball championship title in 16 years...

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TheGrio's 100: Jason Heyward, bringing blacks back to baseball

By theGrio

1:00 AM on 02/01/2011

TheGrio's 100 - Right-fielder Jason Heyward had a stunning MLB debut with the Atlanta Braves this year, hitting a three-run homer on his first swing as a major-leaguer...

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TheGrio's 100: Mariah Stackhouse, young golfer chips away at championships

By theGrio

12:52 AM on 02/01/2011

TheGrio's 100 - With an average golf score of 73.53 and a 3.96 grade point, 16-year-old Maria Stackhouse is drawing early comparisons to a young Tiger Woods...

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