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Ruth Ray Jackson is an American academic administrator serving as the seventeenth president of Langston University since 2024. She was previously its interim president, vice president of academic affairs, and a professor and dean of the school of education…
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Ruth Simmons (born Ruth Jean Stubblefield, July 3, 1945) is an American professor and academic administrator. Simmons served as the eighth president of Prairie View A&M University, a historically Black university (HBCU), from 2017 until 2023. From 2001 to…
1917–1995
Ruth Smith Lloyd (January 17, 1917 – February 5, 1995) was a 20th-century scientist whose research focused on fertility, the relationship of sex hormones to growth, and the female sex cycle. She earned a PhD in the field of anatomy from Western Reserve…
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Ruth Tunstall Grant (1945–2017) was an African American artist, educator and activist in the San Francisco Bay Area known for her paintings, community activism, and arts advocacy. Her work has been featured in many invitational group exhibitions as well as…
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore (born April 2, 1950) is a prison abolitionist and prison scholar. She is the Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and professor of geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center of the City…
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Ruth Winifred Howard (March 25, 1900 – February 12, 1997) was an American psychologist. She is best known for her psychological work concerning students with special needs at Children's Provident Hospital School. She is the second African American women to…
1924–1998
Rutherford Hamlet "Lubby" Adkins (November 21, 1924 – February 6, 1998) was an American military aviator and university administrator who served with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. He flew fourteen combat missions with the Tuskegee Airmen. He…
Biography
Ruthmae Sears is a Bahamian-American mathematics educator, focusing on systemic inequities that impede student understanding of mathematics. She is an associate professor for secondary mathematics education in the University of South Florida College of…
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Rutledge Melvin Dennis (born August 16, 1939) is an American sociologist who is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University. A noted expert on the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, he was formerly the first coordinator of African American…
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Ruzell McCoy Jr. (born c. 1986) is an American college football coach. He is the linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator for the University of Nebraska at Kearney, positions he has held since 2025. He was the interim head football coach for…
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Ryad Assani-Razaki (born November 4, 1981) is a Beninese-Canadian writer. His debut short story collection Deux cercles won the Trillium Book Award for French-language fiction in 2010, and his novel La main d'Iman won the Prix Robert-Cliche in 2011 and was…
1984–
Ryan Bell (born April 17, 1984) is a retired Canadian basketball player from Orleans, Ontario (suburban Ottawa, Ontario). Bell lastly played as guard for Espoon Honka in Finland. Bell has won four national championships as a member of Carleton University…
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Ryan Isiah Bliss (born December 13, 1999) is an American professional baseball second baseman for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the Auburn Tigers. He made his MLB debut in 2024.
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Ryan Terry Clark (born October 12, 1979) is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the LSU Tigers, and was signed by the New York Giants as an undrafted free…
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Ryan Kyle Coogler (born May 23, 1986) is an American filmmaker. His accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award, ten Black Reel Awards, and fourteen NAACP Image Awards. Coogler directed a few short…
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Ryan K. Russell (born January 17, 1992) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He played college football at Purdue University.
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Ryan Thelwell (born April 6, 1973) is a Jamaican-Canadian former professional football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL). He was selected ninth overall by the BC Lions in the 1998 CFL draft…
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Ryan Walters (born January 21, 1986) is an American college football coach who is the defensive coordinator for the University of Washington. He played college football for Colorado from 2004 to 2008. He then served as the defensive coordinator for the…
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Ryanne Alyse Brown (born January 21, 1999) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a right back for Seattle Reign FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She played college soccer for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons and was drafted by…
1918-1919
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA sepia toned panoramic photograph of the Student Army Training Corps Company B from Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, OH. The photograph shows one hundred and twenty-seven undentified men in military uniforms, eight men in plain civilian clothes and…
1944–2017
Samuel Allen Counter Jr. (July 8, 1944 – July 12, 2017) was a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and inaugural director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations.
ca. 1970
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal caption reads, "S. H. College.".
1961–
S. I. Martin (born 24 April 1961) is a British author, historian, journalist and teacher, specialising in Black British history and literature. He wrote Britain's Slave Trade for Channel 4 Books to accompany the channel's television documentary Windrush, a…
1858–
Samuel L. Woolfolk (November 10, 1858 - ?), sometimes spelled Woodfork, was a member of the Arkansas Legislature in 1891. He represented Jefferson County, Arkansas. He was included in a photo montage of African American state legislators serving in…
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