- A proud sponsor of the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington D.C., after having uncovered and donated his great-great grandfather Friday Hamilton's many Civil war records to the institution. Friday Hamilton is memorialized on Civil War Memorial's wall of honor.
- He did professional freelance work as a theatre reviewer for BET Entertainment Television-Magazine and has won the top Poet-Tree Award from Rolling Out/Black Arts Movement and his first ever painting was selected and featured in the Jeep Corporation's Motion Through Art Calendar-2002.
- He has also worked in many aspects of employment in the recording industry from album cover photographer to promotion man. Some of Grant's photographic works appear in the books; Electric Gypsy-Jimi Hendrix, The Illustrated Jimi Hendrix, Experience Hendrix, Univibes. his album photographs appear on "Voodoo Soup", "First Rays of the New Rising Sun" and "Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock".
- An avid history buff who was awarded a certificate of recognition from Ossie Davis for his studies and works at the Third World Cinema/National Academy of Television's Arts and Science training program.
- Author, Writer and Historian Grant Harper Reid is the 2018 NAACP Mid-Manhattan Black History Month Founders Day Award Winner for both of his 5-Star books, "Rhythm For Sale" & Harlem Bible-In The Beginning. He was honored for his years of research for "Rhythm For Sale", a biography about his grandfather Leonard Harper who was a Colored Theatrical producer-director-choreographer during the 1920's-1930's Harlem Renaissance era. His newest book "Harlem Bible" rediscovers the History, Soul, and Spirit of Harlem through the eyes of the Author. Presented by NAACP Mid-Manhattan Branch President Geoffrey E. Eaton.
- Grant's Book "Harlem Bible" about growing up in Harlem and the suburbs of Teaneck, N.J. is an Award winner as well.
- In 2022 Grant Harper Reid was able to get his grandfather Harlem Renaissance Producer Leonard Harper inducted into the Tap Dance Hall of Fame.
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