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BIOGRAPHY
Film & Television

Alicia Keys

1981–

Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. A classically trained pianist, Keys began composing songs at the age of 12 and was signed by Columbia Records at 15. After…

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Literature

Alicia Myers

1957–

Alicia Myers (born November 20, 1957) is an American R&B musician. Beginning her music career with the band Al Hudson & the Soul Partners, who later evolved into One Way, Myers went on to a moderately successful solo career in the early 1980s, scoring hits…

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Music

Alicia Warrington

1980–

Alicia Warrington (born August 30, 1980) is an American drummer and professional wrestling ring announcer. She has played drums for Kate Nash, Kelly Osbourne, Lillix, Hannah Montana, Uh Huh Her, Gore Gore Girls, Dawn Robinson, The All-Girl Boys Choir, The…

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Politics & Public Life

Alicka Ampry-Samuel

1976–

Alicka Ampry-Samuel (born May 6, 1976) is an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat, she served as a New York City Council member for the 41st district. The district included portions of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Ocean Hill-Brownsville, East Flatbush, Crown…

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Historical photographs & visual records

Alidotun of Idotun- Oba #2 of Ikenne, Ikenne, Nigeria

1973-09-29

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Original text on slide reads, "Alidotun of Idotun- Oba #2 of Ikenne. Saturday 4 PM. last day of Balufon".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2005-002, Item EEPA 2015-015-1226
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Music

Alika

1977–

Alicia Dal Monte Campuzano (born 28 June 1977), better known by her stage name as Alika, is a Uruguayan–Argentine rapper, singer, songwriter, and reggae musician. She is better known for heading the reggae act Alika & Nueva Alianza.

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Alikali devil masqueraders

1979

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Donor notes read: ""Alikali"; Child devil Kabala, Christmas, 1979. "ta/la/be" = devil-Krio. Alakali or "jolly" seems to be used by Koranko. The child devils I saw were mostly Koranko boys. There were no girls involved in the dancing. The date on the slide…

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1993-028, Item EEPA.1993-028-1675
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Arts & Performance

Alile Sharon Larkin

1953–

Alile Sharon Larkin (born May 6, 1953) is an American film producer, writer and director. She is associated with the L.A. Rebellion (also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers), which is said to have "collectively imagined and created a Black…

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Education & Scholarship

Aline Elizabeth Black

1906–1974

Aline Elizabeth Black, also known under her married name of Aline Elizabeth Black Hicks, (March 23, 1906 – August 24, 1974) was an American educator, known for taking part in a civil rights court case that centered on unequal pay. In 2008, the Library of…

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Literature

Aline Wirley

1981–

Aline Wirley da Silva (born 18 December 1981) is a Brazilian actress and singer-songwriter. In 2002, she won the talent show Popstars and joined the Brazilian girl group Rouge until 2005, with which she released four studio albums, Rouge (2002), C'est La…

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Historical photographs & visual records

Alis Curio Market, downtown Mombasa, Kenya

1994 August 4

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Cataloged as “Alis Curio Market, downtown Mombasa, Kenya” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1994-008, Item EEPA 1994-008-0269
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Business & Enterprise

Alisa Bowens-Mercado

Biography

Alisa Bowens-Mercado is the founder and owner of the first Black-woman owned brewery in Connecticut - Rhythm Brewing Co. As of June 2022, Bownes-Mercado's brewery is also the only Black-woman-owned brewery in Connecticut. Before entering the brewery…

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Science & Inventions

Alisa Stephens-Shields

Biography

Alisa J. Stephens-Shields is an American biostatistician whose research focuses on the statistics of clinical trials, including cluster-randomised controlled trials, longitudinal data, semiparametric models, and causal inference. She is an associate…

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Sports & Achievement

Alisha Glass

1988–

Alisha Rebecca Glass Childress (born April 5, 1988) is an American professional volleyball player who played as a setter for the Vegas Thrill of the Pro Volleyball Federation. Glass played collegiate volleyball for Penn State, where she led Penn State to…

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Arts & Performance

Alisha Morrison

1986–

Alisha Morrison (born April 23, 1986) is a Canadian actress known for roles in Harriet the Spy and Mean Girls.

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Sports

Alisha Tatham

1986–

Alisha Tatham (born October 14, 1986 in East York) is a Canadian professional basketball player. She plays for Canada women's national basketball team. She has competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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Politics & Public Life

Alison Collins

Biography

Alison M. Collins (born 1969/1970) is a former commissioner of the San Francisco Board of Education. She served on the board from January 7, 2019 until her recall election of February 15, 2022, when she was ousted by 76% of the vote, the largest of all…

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Literature

Alison Duke

Biography

Alison Duke is a Canadian film director, producer, and writer. She is the co-founder and director of Oya Media.

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Biography & Culture

Alison Hammond

1975–

Alison Hammond (born 5 February 1975) is a British broadcaster and television presenter. Since 2021, she has been a main co-presenter of ITV's This Morning on Fridays, school holidays and bank holidays alongside Dermot O'Leary. She has also co-presented…

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Biography & Culture

Alison Heydari

Biography

Alison Claire Heydari is a British chief police officer and criminal-justice leader serving as Commander for the Criminal Justice portfolio within Met Operations in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). Over a policing career beginning in 2000, she has…

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Politics & Public Life

Alison Lowe, Baroness Lowe of Armley

1964–

Alison Natalie Kay Lowe, Baroness Lowe of Armley is a British Labour politician and life peer serving as deputy mayor of West Yorkshire for Policing and Crime. She was the first black woman Leeds city councillor, serving from 1990 to 2019, and has served…

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Arts & Performance

Alison Saar

1956–

Alison Saar (born February 5, 1956) is a Los Angeles-based sculptor, mixed-media, and installation artist. Her artwork focuses on the African diaspora and black female identity and is influenced by African, Caribbean, and Latin American folk art and…

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Arts & Performance

Alison Sealy-Smith

1959–

Alison Sealy-Smith (born 1959) is a Barbadian-born Canadian actress best known for her role as the mutant goddess Storm in X-Men: The Animated Series (1993–1997), X-Men '97 (2024–present), and What If...? (2024).

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Biography & Culture

Alison Stewart

1966–

Alison Stewart (born July 4, 1966) is an American journalist and author. Stewart first gained widespread visibility as a political correspondent for MTV News in the 1990s. She is the host of WNYC's midday show, All of It with Alison Stewart.

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