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Bernardine Evaristo
1959–
Evaristo won the 2019 Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other and champions the work of writers of colour.
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Bernette Ford
1950–2021
Bernette Ford (June 30, 1950 – June 20, 2021) was an American author, editor and publisher. She worked as editor-in-chief at Grosset & Dunlap and later Scholastic Books, where she was vice-president of the Cartwheel imprint, which she helped launch. She…
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Bernice Edwards
1910–1969
Bernice Edwards (c. 1907 – February 26, 1969) was an American classic female blues singer, pianist and songwriter. She recorded a total of 21 tracks between 1926 and 1935. Unusually for a female blues performer at the time, Edwards composed some of her…
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Bernice Johnson Reagon
1942–2024
Bernice Johnson Reagon (October 4, 1942 – July 16, 2024) was an American song leader, composer, professor of American history, curator at the Smithsonian, and social activist. In the early 1960s, she was a founding member of the Freedom Singers, organized…
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Literature & Journalism
Bernice Love Wiggins
1897–1936
Bernice Love Wiggins (also Bernice Love Clay, March 4, 1897 – January 27, 1936) was an African-American poet writing during the Harlem Renaissance period. Her work was published in the El Paso Herald, the Chicago Defender, the Houston Informer, and other…
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Bernice McFadden
1965–
Bernice L. McFadden (born September 26, 1965) is an American novelist. She has also written humorous erotica under the pseudonym Geneva Holliday. Author of fifteen novels, she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Tulane University in New Orleans.
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Visual Arts
Bernie Casey
1939–2017
Bernard Terry Casey (June 8, 1939 – September 19, 2017) was an American professional football player and actor. He was a football player and All-American hurdler at Bowling Green State University, before playing professionally as a wide receiver in the…
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Bernie Haynes Robynson
1900–2001
Bernie Haynes Robynson (1900—2001), was an American printmaker, illustrator, graphic artist, and educator. He is associated with graphic arts history within the Harlem Renaissance, a Black cultural movement of the 1920s in New York City.
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Bernie Mac
1957–2008
Bernard Jeffrey McCullough (October 5, 1957 – August 9, 2008), known professionally as Bernie Mac, was an American stand-up comedian, actor and film producer. His most noted film roles were as Frank Catton in the Ocean's film series from 2001 through 2007…
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Bernie Worrell
1944–2016
George Bernard Worrell, Jr. (April 19, 1944 – June 24, 2016) was an American keyboardist and record producer, best known as a founding member of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective and a touring member of Talking Heads in the 1980s.
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Beronda Montgomery
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Beronda Montgomery is a writer, science communicator, and researcher. She has spent more than 20 years as a professor and academic administrator at Michigan State University and Grinnell College. Her research has centered on how photosynthetic organisms…
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Berry Gordy
1929–
Gordy built Motown into one of the most successful Black-owned businesses in American history, launching the careers of countless legendary artists.
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Arts & Performance
Bert Andrews
1929–1993
Bert Andrews (March 21, 1929 – January 25, 1993) was an American photographer, who chronicled black theatre in New York City. In a career that spanned over three decades he photographed many of the leading African American actors of the stage and screen…
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Bert DeCoteaux
1929–2005
Norbert Montague De Coteau Jr. (June 12, 1929 – July 6, 2005), usually known professionally as Bert DeCoteaux or de Coteaux, was an American arranger, record producer and songwriter, known for his soul and funk recordings in the 1960s and 1970s for artists…
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Bert Long Jr.
1940–2013
Bert Long Jr. (1940–2013) was a chef, painter, photographer, sculptor, and a founder of Project Row Houses.
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Bertha
1960s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGBertha - Santa Monica, California, 1960's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 163. A black-and-white photograph of woman (presumedly Bertha) standing in the doorway of the "House of 'Bertha.'" The business offers card reading,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.74.126
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Bertha Calloway
1925–2017
Bertha W. Calloway (July 14, 1925 – November 25, 2017) was an African-American community activist and historian in North Omaha, Nebraska. The founder of the Negro History Society and the Great Plains Black History Museum, Calloway won awards from several…
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Bertha Des Verney
1890–1975
Bertha Des Verney (October 5, 1890 – January 1, 1975) was an American pianist, composer, music educator, singer, and playwright. She was choir and drama director at the Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Harlem for over forty years, director…
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Bertha Holliday
Dates not recorded
Bertha Garrett Holliday is a community psychologist known for her expertise on ethnic minority issues. Her work has focused on processes of child and family socialization and the academic experiences and achievement of Black youth. Holliday was Senior…
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Bertha Idaho
1895–
Bertha Idaho (born c. 1895; date of death unknown) was an American classic female blues singer. She recorded four songs in 1928 and 1929. Little is known of her life outside music. Idaho's work might have remained obscure but for two factors: she was…
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Bertha L. Turner
1867–1938
Bertha Lee Turner (1867–1938) was an American caterer, cookbook author, and community leader in Pasadena, California, in the early 1900s. She is most famous for compiling The Federation Cookbook: A Collection of Tested Recipes Compiled by the Colored Women…
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Bertha on an Edisto Island front porch
1977; printed 2007
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis gelatin silver print depicts a black and white image of a woman named Bertha seated in a chair. She is wearing a knitted sweater and a bandana on her head. Her hands are folded and resting on her lap. She is seated outside and a small portion of a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.310.7
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Bertice Berry
1960
Bertice Berry (born 1960) is an American sociologist, author, lecturer, and educator.
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Bertrand Bickersteth
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Bertrand Bickersteth is a Canadian poet. His debut collection, The Response of Weeds, was published in 2020 and won the Gerald Lampert Award from the League of Canadian Poets in 2021. From Calgary, Alberta, he is a communication instructor at Olds College.
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