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Nigel Shawn Williams is a Canadian actor and theatre director from Toronto, Ontario. Williams was born in Jamaica and moved to Canada with his family in childhood. A 1990 graduate of the University of Windsor, his early stage roles included Thomas Coyle's…
September, 1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph of Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo. He is in traditional Nigerian clothing walking next to Dr. James Cheek in a suit. He is holding a cane and waving with his left hand. Additional men can be seen in the background. The…
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Nii Addy is an American neuroscientist who is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. His research considers the neurobiological basis of substance use disorders, depression, and anxiety. He has worked on various initiatives to…
1995–
Niki Jackson (born August 25, 1995) is an American soccer player who plays as a forward. He grew up in Collierville, Tennessee and Scottsdale, Arizona before attending Cactus Shadows High School and Grand Canyon University.
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Nikki M. Taylor is an American historian. She is professor of history at Howard University and author of four books on nineteenth-century African-American history.
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Nikki Turner is an American author of urban fiction, dubbed by Trendsetter Magazine as the "Queen of Hip Hop Lit". Her first two books, A Hustler's Wife and A Project Chick have sold about 150,000 copies as of 2005. Turner was born in Richmond, Virginia…
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Madeline Nicole Washington (born August 1, 1988) is an American retired professional soccer forward and right midfielder who last played for Boston Breakers in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and is currently an assistant coach for the women's…
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Nikkita R. Oliver is an American lawyer, non-profit administrator, educator, poet, and politician. They were a candidate for mayor of Seattle in the 2017 mayoral election, but finished third in the primary with 17% of the vote. Oliver was defeated again in…
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Nikky Finney (born Lynn Carol Finney on August 26, 1957) is an American poet. She was the Guy Davenport Endowed Professor of English at the University of Kentucky for twenty years. In 2013, she accepted a position at the University of South Carolina as the…
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Nikole Sheri Hannah-Jones (born April 9, 1976) is an American investigative journalist known for her coverage of racial discrimination in American schools and for her work on The 1619 Project, for which she won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.…
1982–
Nikyatu Jusu () is an American independent writer, director, producer, editor and assistant professor in film and video at George Mason University. Jusu's works center on the complexities of Black female characters and in particular, displaced, immigrant…
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Nilma Lino Gomes (born 1961) is a Brazilian professor, researcher, and university administrator recognized for her commitment to education, diversity, and racial equality. She was the first Black woman in Brazil to lead a public federal university after…
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Nina Banks is an American economist who is an associate professor of economics at Bucknell University and former president of the National Economic Association. She previously served on the board of the International Association for Feminist Economics…
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Nina Gomer Du Bois (July 4, 1870 – July 26, 1950) was an American civil rights activist, Baháʼí Faith practitioner, and homemaker. In 1927, she served on the executive committee of the Women's International Circle of Peace and Foreign Relations, which was…
1978–
Nina E. King (born October 3, 1978) is an American college sports administrator who is currently the vice president, director of athletics and adjunct professor of business administration at Duke University. She was named the director of athletics for the…
1969–
Oluwakemi Nina Sosanya (born 6 June 1969) is an English actress and narrator. She is most notable for her roles in Teachers, W1A, and Last Tango in Halifax.
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Nirra Fields (born December 3, 1993) is a Canadian professional basketball player for İzmit Belediyespor of the Women's Basketball Super League. She played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. After a successful career with the Bruins, Fields was…
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Nisha D. Botchwey is a Jamaican-American academic administrator specializing in health and environmental policy. She has served as dean of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota since 2022.
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Njema Frazier (born in San Francisco, California on March 13, 1974) is a nuclear physicist at the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in Washington, D.C. Frazier has a bachelor's degree in physics from Carnegie Mellon…
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Nkechi Madonna Adeleine Agwu (born October 8, 1962) is a mathematics teacher. Agwu is a naturalized American citizen, tenured faculty at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, part of the City University of New York, and was a director of the…
1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts three mountain peaks, each a different color. From back to front, the peaks are green, brown and red with black shadowing in each of them. The sky is blue, light…
2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA signed hardcover first edition of No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington, written by Condoleezza Rice. The book features a glossy color paper jacket over its black hardcover. The black spine displays the book title, author, and publisher…
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Noah Cato (born 31 March 1988) is an English rugby union player who plays as a wing and fullback for Wimbledon RFC in the National League 2 South. He was educated at St. Aubyns School, Rottingdean, Hurstpierpoint College and at the University of Hertfordshire.
1974–
Noel Scarlett (born January 21, 1974 – September 1, 2021) was an American professional football defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the New England Patriots, Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys. He also was a member of the Scottish…
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