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Yasmin Benoit
1996–
Yasmin Benoit (born 10 June 1996) is an English lingerie and alternative model. She is also an asexual and aromantic activist and researcher.
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Yasmin Warsame
1976–
Yasmin Abshir Warsame (Somali: Yasmiin Abshir Warsame, Arabic: ياسمين ابشير ارسام; born May 5, 1976) is a Somali-Canadian model and activist. In 2004, she was named "The Most Alluring Canadian" in a poll by Fashion magazine.
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Civil Rights & Community
Yavilah McCoy
1972–
Yavilah McCoy (born November 8, 1972), an African-American Jew, is the founder of Ayecha, a nonprofit organization providing educational resources for Jewish diversity and advocacy for Jews of Color in the United States. She is a teacher, writer, editor,…
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Visual Arts
Ye Shall Inherit the Earth
1953; printed 1953
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black and white offest lithograph titled “Ye Shall Inherit the Earth” by Charles White. The lithograph depicts Rosa Lee Ingram holding her infant child. Ingram faces forward, holding the unclothed child in her bent proper right arm, her proper left hand…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.87.4
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Yehiel Curry
1972–
Yehiel Curry (born July 26, 1972) is an American Mainline Protestant prelate who has served as presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) since October 2025.
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Clothing - Fashion and Historical
Yellow A-line dress designed and worn by LaShawn Kenley
2020
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA mustard yellow cotton crepe A-line dress designed and worn by LaShawn Kenley on June 6, 2020 in Washington, DC during a Black Lives Matter protest of the killing of George Floyd. The dress has a deep V neckline with short dolman sleeves and a large knot…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2022.49.1
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Photographs and Still Images
Yellow school bus - Resurrection City., Wash, D.C. - 1968
May 21, 1968- June 23, 1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis image depicts a yellow school bus parked by the curb with five men's heads protruding from side windows and one man emerging from the door. The photograph is taken from the rear right side of the bus, looking towards the front. There are two hand-made…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.116.46
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Clothing - Fashion and Historical
Yellow sheath dress worn by Karine Jean-Pierre
ca. 2021
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA yellow sheath dress worn by Karine Jean-Pierre. The dress is made of crepe triacetate and polyester. It has a V neckline with a triangular notch cut out on each side of the neckline. The short cap sleeves end at the middle of each armscye. A dart is sewn…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.31.1
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Yemi Mobolade
Biography
Blessing Adeyemi Mobolade (born February 12, 1979) is an American businessman and politician. He is the 42nd mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado, being sworn in on June 6, 2023.
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Visual Arts
Yes We Did!
2008
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print titled “Yes We Did!" by Shepard Fairey, celebrating the historic presidential electoral victory by Barack Obama in 2008. It was made in partnership with the organization, MoveOn.org. The poster uses the same color palette as Fairey’s famous…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.39.15
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Science & Inventions
Yeshimabeit Milner
Biography
Yeshimabeit "Yeshi" Milner is an American technologist and activist. She is the executive director and co-founder of Data for Black Lives.
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Yinka Faleti
1976–
Adeyinka Faleti (born June 20, 1976) is a Nigerian-American politician and United States Army veteran who was the Democratic candidate in the 2020 Missouri Secretary of State election. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the United States Military…
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Business
Yolanda Hill Robinson
1968–
Yolanda Dechelle Hill Robinson (born 1968) is an American accountant and non-profit executive. As the wife of Former Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson, she served as the Second Lady of North Carolina from 2021 to 2025 and was the first African-American…
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Yolanda King
1955–2007
Yolanda Denise King (November 17, 1955 – May 15, 2007) was an American activist and campaigner for African-American rights and first-born child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, who pursued artistic and entertainment…
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Yolanda King, oldest daugher of Martin Luther King, Jr. arriving at Ebenezer Baptist Church
January 15, 1969; printed 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis black and white photograph shows Yolanda King arriving at the first commemorative event on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday in 1969 at Ebenezer Baptist Church. King can be seen, center, in profile in a solid, knee-length coat holding a white handbag.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.94.39
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Politics & Public Life
Yolande James
1977–
Yolande James (born November 21, 1977, in Montreal, Quebec) is a former Quebec provincial politician. She was the first black female MNA, the youngest, and the first black cabinet minister in Quebec history. A member of the Quebec Liberal Party, she…
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Yolette Lévy
1938–2018
Yolette Lévy (May 15, 1938 – December 6, 2018) was a Haitian-born Canadian politician and activist from Val-d'Or, in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec. She was for many years a municipal councilor in Val-d'Or. Originally a pharmacist, she also worked as a…
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Yolo Akili
1981–
Michael Todd Robinson Jr. (born October 14, 1981), better known as Yolo Akili, is an American activist, writer, poet, counselor, and community organizer who advocates for addressing mental and emotional health needs in the Black community. He is the author…
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Politics & Public Life
Yolonda Fountain Henderson
Biography
Yolonda Fountain Henderson (born c. 1965) is an American politician. She has served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 85th district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as mayor of Jennings,…
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Civil Rights & Community
Yonnette Fleming
1968–
Yonnette Fleming (born 1968) is an American urban farmer and community earth steward based in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Fleming is part of the environmental movement, her work focusing on urban community gardens and black farmers.
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Exploration
York
c. 1770–c. 1832
York traveled the full route of the Corps of Discovery, hunting, scouting and voting alongside the expedition’s other members despite being enslaved by William Clark.
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Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
You Can Jail a Revolutionary, but You Can't Jail a Revolution
ca. 1969-1970
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis poster depicts an image of Fred Hampton gesticulating against a larger than life portrait of his head, against a blue and black stripe background. The monumental image wears a dark cap and is shown from the neck up. Radiating from this monumental head…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.28.18
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Photographs and Still Images
Young girl in tent doorway - Resurrection City, Wash., D.C. - 1968
May 21, 1968- June 23, 1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis image depicts a young girl peering out between the flaps of a yellow tent in Resurrection City during the Poor People's Campaign. The girl leans slightly to her right to look around the edge of the yellow tent flap. She wears a pale yellow dress and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.116.38
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Young Lords, At the Breakfast Table
1970; printed later
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital print depicting a black-and-white image of a busy kitchen belonging to the New York Young Lords during their breakfast program, with five children in view sitting and eating breakfast while three young adults cook near the stove. A long table is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.53.32
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