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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…
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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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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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…
1973-09-29
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on slide reads, "Alidotun of Idotun- Oba #2 of Ikenne. Saturday 4 PM. last day of Balufon".
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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.
1979
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDonor 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…
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…
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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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…
1994 August 4
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Alis Curio Market, downtown Mombasa, Kenya” (Slides (photographs)).
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…
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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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…
1986–
Alisha Morrison (born April 23, 1986) is a Canadian actress known for roles in Harriet the Spy and Mean Girls.
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.
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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Alison Duke is a Canadian film director, producer, and writer. She is the co-founder and director of Oya Media.
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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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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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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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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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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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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