What Drives You: Achievers Share Secrets of Success

Harlem's Schomburg Center Director Khalil Muhammad, online innovator Rachel Brooks and NAACP activist Jotaka Eaddy exemplify the qualities of influence and achievement that characterize the 2013 Root 100 honorees.

In their own words, they each describe the events and the role models who have inspired them.

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