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c. 1696–1781
Enslaved as a child and later gifted to Peter the Great, Gannibal rose through the Russian military and engineering ranks to become a general, leaving a legacy that includes his celebrated great-grandson, the poet Alexander Pushkin.
1815–1904
Abrey Kamoo (born Abbredalah Kaloss, alias Tommy Kamoo; January/February 1815 – February 21, 1904) was an American physician who was reportedly born in Tunisia. In 1862, during the American Civil War, she was said to have served in disguise as a Union Army…
Biography
Achille Messac is the Dean of the College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences at Howard University. He has previously served as Professor of Aerospace Engineering Mississippi State University. He was elected a Fellow of the American…
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Ada M. Fisher (October 21, 1947 – October 7, 2022) was an American physician from Salisbury, North Carolina, and a frequent Republican candidate for office. She challenged incumbent Mel Watt in North Carolina's 12th Congressional district in 2004 and 2006.…
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Adah Belle Samuels Thoms (January 12, 1870 – February 21, 1943) was an African American nurse who cofounded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (serving as President from 1916 to 1923), was acting director of the Lincoln School for Nurses…
after 1950
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA hand-crank adding machine manufactured by the Burroughs Corporation and used by the Chicago Defender. The adding machine has 81 number keys (1-9) in teal, blue, and black. Above the number keys are a black key that reads [REPEAT] and a red key that reads…
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Saheed Adebayo Akinfenwa (; born 10 May 1982) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. Nicknamed "The Beast", he was renowned for his huge physical prowess and goalscoring ability, in a career where he amassed more than 200…
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Adeiyewunmi "Ade" Osinubi (born 1996) is an American physician, documentary filmmaker, and writer. She is an emergency medicine Resident Physician at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and she is the producer of Black Motherhood through the…
Biography
Adejoke Bolanle Ayoola (born July 20, 1970) is a Nigerian-American academic and nursing researcher at Calvin University.
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Adeola Deborah Olubamiji (born April 3, 1985) is a Canadian technologist who specializes in metal and plastic additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing). In 2017, she became the first Black person to obtain a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the…
1989–
Adesuwa Oni is a British actress. She is known for her roles as Queen Njinga in the Netflix docudrama series African Queens: Njinga and Ngozi Okoye in the BBC medical drama series Casualty.
1977–
Adia Benton is an American cultural and medical anthropologist whose research concerns how care is provided in humanitarian emergencies and development projects. Benton is currently an associate professor of anthropology and African Studies at Northwestern…
1947–
Adolph Leonard Reed Jr. (born January 14, 1947) is an American professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in studies of issues of racism and U.S. politics. He has taught at Yale, Northwestern, and the New School…
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Adrian Harewood is a Canadian television and radio journalist, and the anchor of CBOT's CBC News: Ottawa at 5/5:30/6 and CBC News: Late Night in Ottawa. An Ottawa native, Harewood attended Ashbury College, a private school in Rockcliffe, where he was…
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Tracy Adrian Hill (born 1964) is an American professional football official in the National Football League (NFL) since the 2010 NFL season, who wears uniform number 29.
Biography
Adrian Land is an American microbiologist, educator and a senior manager of affairs at Procter & Gamble as of 2022.
Biography
Adrienne Stiff-Roberts is an American electrical engineering and Jeffrey N. Vinik Professor of Electrical and computer engineering at Duke University. Her research is on novel hybrid materials for optoelectronic and energy devices.
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Adrienne Williams Scott is an American ophthalmologist specialized in diabetic retinopathy, epiretinal membranes, and macular degeneration. She is chief of the Wilmer Eye Institute in Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland. She is an associate professor of…
1993
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA blue pamphlet with a caduceus along the right side titled” African-American Women Heritage Series: Physicians, Biographical Sketches of Twenty-One Achievers in the Field of Medicine” published by the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
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Surgeon-Major James Africanus Beale Horton (c. 1835 – c. 1883) was a British Army officer, surgeon, writer and banker. Born in Gloucester, Sierra Leone into an Igbo family who were liberated from enslavement by the Royal Navy, he began attending the Sierra…
July 21, 1958
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn agenda for a midwife meeting dated July 21, 1958. Agenda items include an opening song, a lecture on midwife responsibilities with respect to diet, and a discussion about the completion of birth certificates. Possibly a carbon copy, it is typewritten on…
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Aggrey Washington Burke FRCPsych (13 May 1943 – 21 December 2025) was a Jamaican-born British psychiatrist and academic, who spent the majority of his medical career at St George's Hospital in London, England, specialising in transcultural psychiatry and…
1928–2018
Agnes D. Lattimer (1928–2018) was a pediatrician. In 1986 she was appointed as the medical director of Cook County Hospital, making her the first African American woman medical director of a major hospital.
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Agnes Yewande Savage (21 February 1906 – 7 September 1964) was a Nigerian–Scottish medical doctor and the first West African woman to train and qualify in orthodox medicine. Savage was the first West African woman to receive a university degree in…
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