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Duane A. Mitchell is an American physician-scientist and university professor. He is currently employed at the University of Florida College of Medicine, in Gainesville, Florida as the Assistant Vice President for Research, Associate Dean for Translational…
1976–
Duane Girard Watson (born 1976) is an American neuroscientist and professor of psychology and human development at Vanderbilt University. He holds the Frank W. Mayborn Chair in Cognitive Science and leads the Vanderbilt University Communication and…
1934–2011
Dudley Laws (May 7, 1934 – March 24, 2011) was a Canadian civil rights activist and executive director of the Black Action Defence Committee. Laws was born in Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica, to parents Ezekiel and Agatha Laws, and was a brother to six other…
1881–1965
Dudley Weldon Woodard (October 3, 1881 – July 1, 1965) was a Galveston-born American mathematician and professor, and the second African-American to earn a PhD in mathematics; the first was Woodard's mentor Elbert Frank Cox, who earned a PhD from Cornell…
Biography
Dwain Murphy is a Dominican-born Canadian actor. He is best known for playing Eric in Degrassi: The Next Generation, Giles in The Line, and Bishop in How She Move. Murphy has made an appearance in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist doing the voice and…
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Evan Dale Abel (born 1963) is an American endocrinologist who serves as chair of the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, succeeding Alan Fogelman who stepped down after 29 years. His works on the molecular mechanisms that…
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Edward Franklin Frazier (; September 24, 1894 – May 17, 1962), was an American sociologist and author, publishing as E. Franklin Frazier. His 1932 Ph.D. dissertation was published as a book titled The Negro Family in the United States (1939); it analyzed…
1937–1993
E. Kitch Childs (April 11, 1937 – January 10, 1993) was a significant American clinical psychologist and an activist known for her participation in the women's liberation movement in North America during the "second wave" of feminism during the 1960s and…
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Edward Mealy El (born Edward Mealy; September 17, 1870 – 1935), often known as E. Mealy El, was an American religious leader who was Prophet Noble Drew Ali's successor as head of the Moorish Science Temple of America. He was appointed as the first…
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Eustace Edward Ricardo Braithwaite (June 27, 1912 – December 12, 2016), publishing as E. R. Braithwaite, was a Guyanese-born British-American novelist, writer, teacher and diplomat best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination…
1934–2020
Elijah Walter Miles (usually published as E. Walter Miles; May 4, 1934 – July 8, 2020) was an American political scientist and scholar of constitutional law. He specialized in the Constitution of the United States and the judicial process. He spent more…
1937–
Earl David Shaw (born 26 November 1937) is an American physicist and professor, known for his work in laser science and developing laser technology. He is credited as the co-founder of the spin-flip Raman tunable laser.
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Earl Wiley Renfroe (January 9, 1907 – November 14, 2000) was an African-American dentist known as an innovator in the field of orthodontics and for breaking down the barriers of racism. Renfroe taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of…
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Earyn McGee is an American herpetologist and science communicator. She is an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) IF/THEN Ambassador and a 2020 AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellow. In response to the racism faced by Black…
September 1948
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn issue of Ebony Magazine from September 1948. On the cover, Esther Williams sits with a "foot doctor to Hollywood stars." Inside, the fourth of five Pepsi illustrated ads by Jay Jackson: “Any you gals got bottle openers?”
December 1948
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn issue of Ebony Magazine from December 1948. On the cover, a girl in a red hooded jacket holding a small dog with the headline "Why Every Child Needs a Doctor Today." Inside, a Pepsi illustrated ad by E.C. Stoner: "Twice as Many, Ice as Many, Pepsi."
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Edward Joseph Dwight Jr. (born September 9, 1933) is an American sculptor, author, retired test pilot, and astronaut. Dwight enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1953 and was commissioned a lieutenant in 1955.
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Eddie Bernice Johnson (December 3, 1934 – December 31, 2023) was an American politician who represented Texas's 30th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2023. Johnson was a member of the Democratic Party.…
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Edie Huggins (August 14, 1935 – July 29, 2008), born Edith "Eddie" Lou Thompson, was an American television reporter, journalist and broadcaster. In 1966, Huggins became one of the first female African-American television news reporters in Philadelphia.…
1921–2000
Edith DeVoe (October 24, 1921 – November 17, 2000) was an American nurse. She was the second Black woman admitted to serve in the United States Navy Nurse Corps during World War II, the first Black nurse to be admitted to the regular Navy, and the first…
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Edith Mae Irby Jones (December 23, 1927 – July 15, 2019) was an American physician who was the first woman president of the National Medical Association and a founding member of the Association of Black Cardiologists. She was honored by many awards,…
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Edith Peterson Mitchell (November 20, 1947 – January 21, 2024) was a retired Brigadier general of the United States Air Force and an oncologist. She was clinical professor of medicine and medical oncology at Thomas Jefferson University. In 2015, she became…
1942–
Edmond Joseph Keller, Jr. (born August 22, 1942) is an American Africanist. A graduate of Louisiana State University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Keller is a professor in the political science department at UCLA. He is the former Director of…
1972–
Edray Herber Goins (born June 29, 1972, Los Angeles) is an American mathematician. He specializes in number theory and algebraic geometry. His interests include Selmer groups for elliptic curves using class groups of number fields, Belyi maps and dessins…
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