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Tamar Huggins is a Canadian tech entrepreneur, author and educator. She is an advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion in tech education, whose work focuses on the development of the Black tech ecosystem in Canada. Huggins founded DRIVEN Accelerator…
1984–
Tamara James (born June 13, 1984) is an American basketball former player, formerly of the WNBA's Washington Mystics. She is an alumna of the University of Miami, where she majored in liberal arts with a concentration in theater studies. James was selected…
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Tamarat Makonnen (born March 16, 1972, San Francisco, California) is an American film director, producer and writer. A graduate of Virginia Union University, he received his degree in English Language Arts. The native New Yorker began his professional…
1986
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDonor notes read: "Kpompo tamarine trees, Dec. 14, 1985. BA II Fieldtrip, University of Ghana. The date on the slide is FEB 86.".
1986
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDonor notes read: "Tamarine trees marking old Danish Avenue at Kpompo, just south of Daccubie, Dec. 7, 1985, BA I Fieldtrip, University of Ghana. The date on the slide is FEB 86.".
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Tambra Raye Stevenson is an African-American entrepreneur, nutrition educator, public speaker, policy advisor, inventor, and food justice activist. Stevenson founded WANDA (Women, Advancing, Dietetics and Nutrition) and NativSol Kitchen. She is a Nutrition…
Biography
Tameka Bradley Hobbs is a historian, educator, author, and activist. She currently serves as the Library Regional Manager of Broward County Library's African American Research Library and Cultural Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She previously served…
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Tamika Devonne Catchings (born July 21, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player who played her entire 15-year career for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Widely considered as one of the greatest…
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Tammy L. Kernodle is an American musicologist and a former president of the Society for American Music (2019–21). Her academic writing and public intellectual work has highlighted Black women musicians like Mary Lou Williams, Meshell Ndegeocello, Alice…
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Tananarive Priscilla Due ( tə-NAN-ə-reev DEW) (born January 5, 1966) is an American author and educator. She is also known as a film historian with expertise in Black horror. Due teaches a course at UCLA called "The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and the…
1984–
Taner Adefemi Adu (born 22 February 1984 in London, England) is a professional basketball player who played college basketball for the University of New Orleans in the NCAA and is a former Plymouth Raiders and Essex Pirates player in the British Basketball…
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Tanjaneca Lanese Herring (born April 27) is an American schoolteacher and politician who was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in House District 145, containing parts of Bibb and Monroe counties, in the 2024 election. She defeated Bibb County…
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Tanisha C. Ford (born c. 1980) is an American scholar, historian, and author. She is professor in the History Department at the Graduate Center at The City University of New York. Ford is an expert on black historical fashion and culture.
1907; printed 1907-1914
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA hand-tinted photographic postcard of Tantum Hall at the Tuskegee Institute. The postcard depcits Tantum Hall, a large rectangular brick building with a portico on one side and a porch on the left side, sitting on a hill and framed by green lawns and…
Biography
Tanya Van Court is an American businesswoman who is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Goalsetter, a financial education platform designed to educate kids about financial responsibility.
1978–
Tanya Wright (born May 3, 1971) is an American actress. Born and raised in South Bronx, New York, Wright studied Comparative Literature at Vassar College. After her graduation, she joined the cast of The Cosby Show as Tanya Simpson.
1973–
Tarana Burke (born September 12, 1973) is an American activist from New York City who started the MeToo movement. In 2006, Burke began Me Too as a youth program for junior and high school students with the goal of addressing the rampant sexual violence in…
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Tarell Alvin McCraney (born October 17, 1980) is an American playwright. He is the chair of playwriting at the Yale School of Drama and a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble. He co-wrote the 2016 film Moonlight, based on his own play, for which he…
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Tarvaris D'Andre Jackson (April 21, 1983 – April 12, 2020) was an American professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). Jackson played college football for the Arkansas Razorbacks and the Alabama State Hornets.…
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Tasha Rose Inniss is an American mathematician and the vice provost for research at Spelman College.
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Tashard J. Choice (born November 20, 1984) is an American football coach and former player who currently serves as the running backs coach for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Tech Yellow…
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Tashema Davis is an artist and art teacher based in Indiana, US. Her work, which consists of mostly brightly painted portraiture of Black women and men, has been featured in locations such as Indiana Wesleyan University's 1920 Gallery, the Harrison Center,…
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Tashni-Ann Dubroy (nee Coote; born c. 1981) is a Jamaican academic and university administrator in the United States. She has been executive vice-president and chief operations officer (COO) of Howard University since 2017, having previously served as…
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Tasmin Olajuwon Mitchell (born June 25, 1986) is an American basketball coach and former professional player, currently serving as an assistant coach for the LSU Tigers. A five-star prospect in high school, Mitchell had a successful career at Denham…
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