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1972–
Juan Anthony LaFonta (born November 1972) is a New Orleans personal injury attorney and former Democratic State Representative for Louisiana representing Louisiana House District 96. He was elected in 2005 during a special election and was unopposed in his…
1985–2024
Juan M. Thompson (March 31, 1985 – September 7, 2024) was an American former journalist who was later convicted for cyberstalking and making several bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers in the U.S.
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Juan D'Vaughn Pierre (born August 14, 1977) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2000–2013 for the Colorado Rockies, Florida/Miami Marlins, Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago White…
1911–2012
Juanita Boisseau (1911 - 2012), also known as Juanita Boisseau Ramseur, was an American dancer. She is best known for starring at the world famous jazz club Cotton Club in New York.
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Juanita Olukemi Brent (born February 22, 1984) is an American politician serving as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 22nd district since 2019. The district includes the Cuyahoga County communities of Bedford, Bedford Heights,…
Biography
Juanita Brooks Wade is a community activist. She was an elected member of the Boston School Committee, and was also the third woman of color to be elected to the Boston School Committee. Wade was also the Chief of Human Services for the City of Boston and…
1916–1987
Juanita Ross Gray (June 28, 1916 – July 8, 1987) was a librarian in Denver, Colorado, who was known for her community outreach efforts.
Biography
Juanita N. Holmes is an American retired police officer and administrator who is the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Probation. Prior to that role, Holmes was the Chief of the Training Bureau in the NYPD. Before the appointment of Keechant…
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Juanita Pitts was an African-American tap dancer. During performances, she was known to wear a tuxedo and Oxford shoes, which was common attire for male tap dancers at the time. However, during her life she "danced in relative obscurity". Pitts was from…
1970–
Juba Kalamka (born July 12, 1970) is an African American artist and activist recognized for his work and founding member of homohop group Deep Dickollective (D/DC) and his development of the micro-label sugartruck recordings. Kalamka has coordinated the…
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Jude Victor William Bellingham (born 29 June 2003) is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid and the England national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best attacking midfielders in the…
1883–1958
Judge J. Jackson (March 12, 1883, Montgomery County, Alabama - April 7, 1958, Ozark, Alabama) was an American Sacred Harp composer, songwriter, and educator. His 1934 publication The Colored Sacred Harp was later recognized by scholars such as Doris Dyen…
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Judith Ann Carter Horton (May 17, 1866 – February 16, 1948) was an American educator, librarian, and community leader who founded the first public library for African Americans in Oklahoma.
1963–
Judith Christie McAllister (born September 29, 1963 as Judith F. Christie) is an American Pentecostal gospel singer, songwriter, and musician. She is the leader of Never Ending Worship, and she was the president of the International Music Department for…
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Judith Martin Cadore (née Martin; born 1957) is a U.S. family practitioner who serves rural populations prone to health care disparities in the Bay City, Texas area. She was previously a faculty member at the San Jacinto Methodist Hospital and a clinical…
1943–
Judith Nelson Dilday (born 1943) is an American lawyer and the first person of color appointed as a judge of the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court.
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Judy Bowman (b. 1952) is an American collage artist and educator based in Detroit, Michigan. She is a member of the Detroit Fine Arts Breakfast Club and has participated in Art Basel Miami.
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JudyAnn Bigby is an American doctor and the former secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2013. She currently serves as director of the Harvard Medical School Center of Excellence in…
1947
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA 16mm release print of the feature film Juke Joint. It consists of two reels of positive, black-and-white, 16mm acetate film with variable-area optical sound. It opens as the protagonists Bad News Johnson (Spencer Williams) and July Jones (also known as…
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Jules-Anthony Vilsaint (born January 6, 2003) is a Canadian soccer player who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for Major League Soccer club Toronto FC.
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Jules Allen (born September 13, 1947) is an American photographer, author, and educator. He is known for his photographs of African-American culture. He is an emeritus professor of Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York, where…
1852–1942
Julia Britton Hooks (May 4, 1852 – March 9, 1942), known as the "Angel of Beale Street," was a musician and educator whose work with youth, the elderly, and the indigent was highly respected in her family's home state of Kentucky and in Memphis, Tennessee,…
1842–1865
Julia C. Collins (c. 1842 – November 25, 1865), was an African American schoolteacher in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, who in 1864 and 1865 contributed essays and other writings to The Christian Recorder, a publication of the African Methodist Episcopal…
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Julia Greeley, OFS (c. 1833-48 – 7 June 1918), was an American philanthropist and Catholic convert. An enslaved woman later freed by the U.S. government, she is known as Denver's "Angel of Charity" because of her aid to countless families in poverty.
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