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Audrey Shields Penn (born in 1934) is an American neurologist and emeritus professor. Her major area of research was in the biochemistry of muscle weakness in myasthenia gravis. Penn was elected President of the American Neurological Association in 1994.
1930–2020
Audrey Smedley (1930 – October 14, 2020) was an American social anthropologist and professor emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University in anthropology and African-American studies.
1892–1962
Savage’s sculptures captured Black dignity and pride, and she mentored a generation of young Black artists through the studio and school she founded in Harlem.
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Augustus Granville Dill (November 30, 1882 – March 8, 1956) was an American sociologist, civil rights and labor organizer and activist, musician, member of the NAACP and academic. During his career in academia he made early and major contributions to race…
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Augustus Freeman Hawkins (August 31, 1907 – November 10, 2007) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served in the California State Assembly from 1935 to 1963 and the U.S. House of Representatives from 1963 to 1991. Over the course of his…
1976–
Auntwan Demone Riggins (born June 17, 1976) is an American college baseball coach who served as head coach of the Prairie View A&M Panthers baseball team.
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Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn are artists who collaborate on creating art video games, most prominently as Tale of Tales. From 2018 to 2024, Harvey was Professor of Games at the Kunsthochschule Kassel.
2020
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA mini zine from the Kids Solidarity Mini Zine Pack titled Autistic Joy: a Zine by Jen & Knox, designed by Jennifer White-Johnson and written by Kevin “Knox” Johnson III. The mini zine is constructed from a single sheet of white, heavy weight paper that…
2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAutographed souvenir football from Grambling State University. There is a seam going horizontally across the long side of the football. There are eight golden-yellow stitches in the center of the seam at the top of the football. Three of the four sections…
1976–
Autry Lamont Denson (born December 8, 1976) is an American professional football coach and former player who most recently served as the running backs coach for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL) from 2023 to 2025. He previously…
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Avery August (born January 28, 1964) is a Belizean-born American scientist who is currently a professor of immunology and vice provost at Cornell University.
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Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948) is an American actor, director, singer, narrator and educator. He is best known for his television roles as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A…
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Avery DeWitt Johnson (born March 25, 1965) is an American basketball television commentator, former player and coach who previously served as head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball team. He is an NBA and college basketball analyst for CBS…
1942
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Award Certificate from DeWitt Clinton High School” (Text).
1935
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Award Certificate” (Text).
after 1994
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a bronze statue made by Elizabeth Catlett for The Links, Incorporated. The piece is of a woman figure with arms uplifted and fabric covering her body, standing on a bronze circular base, which is adhered to a wooden base that slopes forward in the…
Biography
Aya Osman is a Sudanese-American Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator of the Osman Lab at University at Albany, State University of New York. Prior to starting her independent research laboratory, she was a postdoctoral fellow and later Assistant…
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (born 1980 or 1981) is a marine biologist, policy expert, and conservation strategist. She is the co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for ocean-climate policy in coastal cities, and the Roux Distinguished Scholar at Bowdoin…
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Ayana M. Evans is an African-American performance artist and educator based in New York City and an adjunct professor of visual art at New York University and Brooklyn College. She also serves as editor-at-large of Cultbytes, an online art publication.…
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Ayana Tamu Arce (née Holloway) is an American physicist and professor of physics at Duke University. She works on particle physics, using data from the Large Hadron Collider to understand phenomena beyond the Standard Model.
Biography
Ayana Jordan is an American addiction psychiatrist and immunopathologist. She researches treatments for substance use disorders in marginalized communities. She is the Barbara Wilson Associate Professor of Psychiatry at NYU Langone Health and was a…
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Ayanah Moor (born 1973, Norfolk, Virginia, United States) is an American conceptual artist and educator. She works in printmaking, video art, mixed media art, and performance art. Her work addresses contemporary popular culture by interrogating identity…
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Ayanna MacCalla Howard (born January 24, 1972) is an American roboticist, entrepreneur, and educator who will begin serving as the President of Spelman College on August 1, 2026, succeeding Interim President and Chair Emerita Rosalind "Roz" Brewer. She…
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Ayanna Jolivet McCloud (born 1978) is a visual and performance artist, writer, and educator from Houston, Texas. She is known for her minimalist aesthetic and multimedia sound performances.
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