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1941–2009
Clifton Earl Johnson (December 9, 1941 – June 25, 2009) was an American jurist who served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals from 1982 through 1996. Johnson, who was born in Williamston and graduated from North Carolina Central University and its law…
1919–2011
Clifton O. Dummett, Sr. (1919–2011) was a noted American dentist, dental professor and dean, and dental historian.
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Clifton Reginald Wharton Jr. (September 13, 1926 – November 16, 2024) was an American university president, corporate executive, and United States deputy secretary of state. In his multiple careers, he was an African-American pioneer.
Winter 1995
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1983–
Clint Kent (born October 14, 1983) is an American gridiron football coach and former player. He is an assistant football coach at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas. Kent played professionally in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a defensive back. He…
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Clinton Smith III (born August 25, 1988) is an American writer, poet and scholar. He is the author of the number one New York Times Best Seller How the Word Is Passed, which won the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named one…
1949–2006
Clinton Bristow Jr. (1949 – August 19, 2006) was an American lawyer, academic official, and who served as the president of the Chicago Board of Education and as the sixteenth president of Alcorn State University.
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Clinton J. Calloway (April 18, 1869–1940) was an American educator and school administrator. He was a leader of efforts to open and improve rural schools in Alabama and other areas in the American South.
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Clive Augustus Myrie (born 25 August 1964) is a British journalist, newsreader and chief presenter for the BBC. He is one of the channel's chief news presenters and correspondents, as well as its election results presenter. Since August 2021, he has been…
1936–
Clive O. Callender (born 1936) is an American surgeon and professor of surgery at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C. Trained in organ transplantation, he founded the Howard University Hospital Transplant Center in 1974. To increase…
1968
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1932–2021
Clotilda Adessa Douglas-Yakimchuk (née Coward; January 11, 1932 – April 15, 2021) was a Canadian nurse. She was the first African-Canadian to graduate from the Nova Scotia Hospital School of Nursing and the first black president of the Registered Nurses’…
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Clotilde Dent Bowen (March 20, 1923 – March 11, 2011) was a psychiatrist who became the first African-American woman to reach the rank of colonel in the U.S. Army. Bowen was also the first African-American woman to graduate in medicine from Ohio State…
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Clyde Edward Austin (November 1, 1957 – August 16, 2025) was an American basketball player. He played college basketball for the NC State Wolfpack and was a second round pick by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1980 NBA draft.
1934–2018
Clyde Mark Billington Jr. (August 29, 1934 – April 2, 2018) was an American chemist, businessman, and politician. Billington was born in Hartford, Connecticut and went to Weaver High School.
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Clyde Foster (November 21, 1931 – March 6, 2017) was an American mathematician and NASA official, mayor, educator and education administrator. He worked for the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (which became NASA), from 1955 to 1986; working originally as a…
1927–1963
Clyde Kennard (June 12, 1927 – July 4, 1963) was an American Korean War veteran and civil rights leader from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In the 1950s, he attempted several times to enroll at the all-white Mississippi Southern College (now the University of…
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Clyde Russell Taylor (July 3, 1931 – January 24, 2024) was an American film scholar, writer and cultural critic who made contributions to the fields of cinema studies and African American studies. He was an emeritus professor at New York University. His…
Biography
Colby Burnett is the first Jeopardy! contestant to have won both the Teachers Tournament and the Tournament of Champions. Burnett, who at the time was a teacher at Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois, won the Teachers Tournament in November 2012.
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Coleman Cruz Hughes (born February 25, 1996) is an American writer and podcast host. He was a fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and a fellow and contributing editor at their City Journal, and he is the host of the podcast Conversations…
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Colette Pierce Burnette (born 1957) is an American educational administrator. Educated as an industrial engineer, Burnette later became interested in supporting students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). After serving in several…
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Colin Anthony Cole (born June 24, 1980) is a Canadian-American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the Green Bay Packers, Seattle Seahawks, and Carolina Panthers. He was born in Toronto,…
1961–
Colin Grant (born 1961) is a British writer of Jamaican origin, who is the author of several books, including a 2008 biography of Marcus Garvey entitled Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa and a 2012 memoir,…
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Colin Rand Kaepernick ( KAP-ər-nik; born November 3, 1987) is an American civil rights activist and former professional football quarterback. He played for the San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons. In 2016, he gained…
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