page_title: Grio Awards
section_title: Grio Awards 2010
hierarchical_section_title: Grio Awards / Grio Awards 2010
caption_attribution_description: Jay-Z
context_page_description: The Grio Awards are annual national awards bestowed in a number of categories by The Grio, an American news website geared toward African Americans. The Grio is a division of the MSNBC cable channel. Begun in 2010, the Grio's 100 list of "History Makers in the Making" honors those who are shaping American's future today; its award winners are selected not only from the African American community, but also form all sections of America.
  The ten award categories are Business, Health, Education, Science & the Environment, Media, Pop Culture, Arts & Culture, Service & Activism, Politics and Sports, and ten people are selected from each category. To make the Grio 100 list, winners must display a large-scale impact on all of America, and their work must be ongoing. The editorial team at theGrio.com, after consulting contributors and experts, decides the final outcome of the awards. The top 100 change every year.
context_section_description: Ursula Burns, chief executive officer of Xerox
  Tracy Reese, fashion designer
  Jay-Z, musician, rap mogul
  Oprah Winfrey, media mogul
  Clarence Otis, Jr., chief executive officer of Darden Restaurants
  Ephren W. Taylor, chief executive officer of City Capital Corporations
  Janice Bryant Howroyd, entrepreneur
  Ralph Gilles, president and CEO Dodge Brand
  Jamail Larkins, chief executive officer of Ascension Aircraft
  Carla Harris, managing director in Global Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley
  Regina Benjamin, U.S. Surgeon General
  Will Allen, chief executive officer of Growing Power
  Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of American Cancer Society
  Kathie-Ann Joseph, surgeon and breast cancer researcher/activist
  Lisa Cooper, professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  Helene Gayle, president and CEO of CARE USA
  Seun Adebiyi, Olympic hopeful
  Satira Streeter, clinical psychologist
  Treena Livingston Arinzeh, biomedical engineer
  Risa Lavisso-Mourey, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  Bakari Sellers, Democratic member of South Carolina House of Representatives
  Anthony Woods, former Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress in California
  Artur Davis, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives
  Melody Barnes, White House Director of the Domestic Policy Council
  Deval Patrick, Democratic Governor of Massachusetts
  Kamala Harris, District Attorney of San Francisco
  Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney General
  Vernon Parker, Republican mayor of Paradise Valley, Arizona
  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, mayor of Baltimore, Maryland
  Kevin Johnson, mayor of Sacramento
  Beyoncé Knowles, singer
  Shona Rimes, executive producer of “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Private Practice”
  Will.i.am, co-founder of Black Eyed Peas, musician and producer
  Drake, rapper
  Chiwetel Ejiofor, actor
  Gina Prince-Bythewood, film director
  Charles King, Hollywood agent
  Darius Rucker, musician and country singer; formerly of Hootie & the Blowfish
  Mary J. Blige, singer; anti-domestic violence activist
  Mo'Nique, actress and comedian
  Jason Moran, jazz musician and music historian
  Kara Walker, artist
  Malcolm Gladwell, author of “The Tipping Point”
  Bill T. Jones, dancer and director of Broadway’s “FELA!”
  Wynton Marsalis, jazz musician
  Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
  Kadir Nelson, children’s book illustrator
  Kehinde Wiley, painter
  Darin Atwater, composer/conductor
  Jessica Care Moore, poet, actor, publisher
  Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator; former space shuttle commander
  Tony Hansberry, The Next Doogie Howser, created a breakthrough surgical stitch
  Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute
  Lisa P. Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
  James McLurkin, electrical engineer and robot specialist
  Jerome Ringo, president of the Apollo Alliance
  Beverly Wright, head of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
  Robert Bullard, author and environmentalist
  Shelton Johnson, park ranger at Yosemite National Park
  Agnes A. Day, associate professor of microbiology at Howard University
  Shani Davis, Olympic speed skater
  Michael Hill, general manager of the Florida Marlins baseball team
  James Stewart, Jr., champion motocross driver
  Evander Kane, member of the Atlanta Thrashers NHL team
  LeBron James, member of the Cleveland Cavaliers NBA team
  Adrian Peterson, member of the Minnesota Vikings NFL team
  Allyson Felix, Olympic track and field athlete
  Candace Parker, member of the Los Angeles Sparks WNBA basketball team
  Serena Williams, professional tennis player
  Cheyenne Woods, golfer
  Wyclef Jean, musician and philanthropist
  Craig Watkins, Dallas District Attorney
  Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey
  Richard Buery, Jr., president and chief executive officer of Children’s Aid Society in New York
  Alysa Stanton, first female African-American rabbi
  Majora Carter, environmental justice advocate
  Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell, first African-American female fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force
  Kari Fulton, national campus campaign coordinator for the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative
  Yolanda Wimberly, assistant profes
caption: Jay-Z, 2010 winner
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