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1964–
Kwabena Adu Boahen (born 22 September 1964) (not to be confused with Kwabena Adu-Boahene, former Director of the National Signals Bureau in Ghana, who is no relation) is a Ghanaian-born Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering at Stanford…
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Kwame Julius McKenzie is a British-Canadian psychiatrist employed as the CEO of Wellesley Institute, a policy think tank based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. McKenzie is a full professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He has…
1964–
Lelia Kym Carter Begel (born March 12, 1964, in Inglewood, California), also known as Kym Carter, is a former heptathlete from the United States, representing her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There she finished in…
1878–1934
Lord Beaconsfield Landry (1878 – 1934), commonly known as L. B. Landry, was an American physician, civic leader, teacher, newspaper columnist, and vocalist. He was African American, and lived in the Algiers neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana where he…
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Lydia Eudoria Ashburne Evans (c. 1887 – January 14, 1992) was an African-American female physician. In 1912 she became the first African-American woman to graduate from Howard University School of Medicine and the first African-American woman licensed as a…
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Lakesia Collins (born 1985) is an American union organizer and politician serving as a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate for the 5th district, located on the West Side of Chicago. She previously served as a member of the Illinois House of…
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Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey is a Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Georgia State University and the Co-Director of the Center for the Advancement of Students and Alumni (CASA). Her research interests include Hip-Hop culture, popular…
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LaMar Hasbrouck (born 31 October, 1965) ) is an American physician, CDC-trained medical epidemiologist, and public health leader. He is the former executive director for the National Association of County and City Health Officials and served as the…
1933–2021
LaMetta Wynn (August 4, 1933 – June 24, 2021) was the mayor of Clinton, Iowa from 1995 to 2007. She was the first African-American woman to hold the position of mayor in any Iowa municipality. Wynn has 10 children and worked for 30 years as a registered nurse.
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Lance Collins is an engineer and professor for mechanical and aerospace engineering at Virginia Tech. He was previously the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering at the Cornell University College of Engineering and is now the inaugural vice president and…
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Lance Martin (December 29, 1959 - May 15, 2020) was an American jazz flute player and music instructor at Wellesley College. Martin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of a Baptist preacher. He started playing the flute at age seven, supposedly…
1993–
LaNell Williams (born January 1, 1993) is an American physicist and virologist. She is the third African American woman to receive a PhD in physics from Harvard University. She founded the Women+ of Color Project, which helps women of color gain the…
1955–
Lanny Smoot (born December 13, 1955) is an American electrical engineer, inventor, scientist, and theatrical technology creator. With over 100 patents, he is Disney's most prolific inventor and one of the most prolific Black inventors in American history.
1949
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA "Ruptured Duck" Honorable Discharge lapel pin issued to Lt. Louise Lomax upon her retirement from active duty with the Army Nurse Corps in 1949, while stationed at the Army's Percy Jones General Hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan. The pin is gold colored…
mid to late 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGLouise Lomax joined the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) as a 2nd Lieutenant in March 1943 and trained as a psychiatric nurse at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. By September 1943 she was stationed at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama, home of the…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on slide reads, "Laptop and desktop computers".
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LaQuandra S. Nesbitt is an American family physician who in 2022 joined the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) as the executive director of the Center for Population Health Sciences and Health Equity. Prior to this,…
1980
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Large clay red water pots drying, Ebu Dada pottery center, Ilorin” (Slides (photographs)).
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Larry Donnie Gladney (born 1957) is an American experimental particle physicist and cosmologist. He serves as a professor of physics at Yale University and the divisional dean for science in the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences. At Yale, he also served as…
1957–
Larry Robinson is an American professor and academic administrator, who served as president of Florida A&M University from 2017 to 2024.
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Larycia Alaine Hawkins (born August 22, 1972) is an American scholar, author, and speaker, who in 2013, became the first female African-American tenured professor at Wheaton College, a Christian Protestant liberal arts college. There she served as an…
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LaShanda Teresa James Korley is a Distinguished Professor of Materials Science at the University of Delaware and an expert in soft matter, polymers, and nature-inspired materials. On a larger scale, Korley is also working on developing strategies and…
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Lataisia Jones is an African American neuroscientist in Washington, D.C. at the National Institutes of Health. Jones was the first African American to graduate with a Ph.D. from the Department of Biomedical Sciences located within the College of Medicine…
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Latanya Sweeney is an American computer scientist. She is the Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School and in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She is the founder and…
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