America's 25 Most Influential Black Leaders (from TheGrio.com)

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Melissa Harris-Perry (frequent guest on Rachel and Keith) helped produce this survey. Interesting inclusions and exclusions, but I find it hard to argue with most of the top 10:

1. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. Barack Obama
3. W.E.B. Du Bois
4. Thurgood Marshall
5. Malcolm X
6. Frederick Douglass
7. Harriet Tubman
8. Rosa Parks
9. Ida B. Wells-Barnett
10. Ella Baker
11. Booker T. Washington
12. Adam Clayton Powell
13. James Baldwin
14. Dred Scott
15. Paul Robeson
16. A. Phillip Randolph
17. Fannie Lou Hamer
18. Marcus Garvey
19. Jesse Jackson, Sr.
20. John Johnson
21. Mary McLeod Bethune
22. Carter G. Woodson
23. Nat Turner
24. Harry Belafonte
25. Charles Hamilton Houston
26. Langston Hughes

I'm surprised by the exclusion of Toni Morrison and, to a lesser extent, Oprah and Colin Powell from the top 25, but it's an interesting list. Here is the .pdf link to the summary: http://bit.ly/eVl6ok">The Grio