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1933–2009
William Leon "Dick" Price (September 10, 1933 – February 23, 2009) was an American football and track and field coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Norfolk State University from 1974 to 1983, compiling a…
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Richard James Ricketts Jr. (December 4, 1933 – March 6, 1988) was an American professional basketball and baseball player. Ricketts was the No. 1 overall pick of the 1955 NBA draft by the St. Louis Hawks out of Duquesne University. Ricketts played…
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Didier Leclair (born Didier Kabagema, 1967 in Montreal) is a Canadian francophone fiction writer currently based in Toronto. He has lived in various countries in Africa, and has studied at Laurentian University in Sudbury and Toronto's Glendon College.
1989
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA documentary film with the title Didn't We Ramble On. Directed by Billy Jackson, the documentary explores the tradition of marching bands in African American culture. It focuses particularly on the historical roots of marching bands in West African…
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Dietra Yvette Trent (born December 17, 1963) served as the Virginia Secretary of Education under Governor Terry McAuliffe. She previously served as Deputy Secretary of Education from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2016 and was elevated after Anne…
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Dieudonné Ella Oyono is Gabonese-Quebecois politician. He holds a team leader position in the economic development department of the City of Montreal and is a lecturer at the School of Management Sciences of the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM). He…
March 20, 2024
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital image of activist and actor Charles Black at Clark Atlanta University. The image captures Black sitting and looking directly into the camera, smiling. His hands are clasped together on his lap. He wears a yellow quarter-zip yellow with dark brown…
1966–2024
A four-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year, Mutombo funded a hospital in Kinshasa and supported health and education in the Congo.
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Dillon Brooks ( DIL-ən; born January 22, 1996) is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks, where he was named a consensus second-team…
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Dillon Michael Tate (born May 1, 1994) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Los Angeles Angels organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays. Tate played college…
1977–
Dina H. Sherif, is an Egyptian-American academic, development expert and entrepreneur. Since 2019, she has served as the executive director of the MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.…
1960–
Dinah Johnson (born Dianne Johnson, August 6, 1960), also known as Dianne Johnson-Feelings, is an author and professor of English. She has written books on the history of Black children's literature, and is most notable for her own children's books, which…
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Dinah Watts Pace (1853–1933) was an American educator who founded black schools in Covington, Georgia and later founded the Covington Colored Children's Orphanage, which she ran for over forty years. Raised as a slave, she received her diploma in education…
Biography
Dinah Chase Whipple (c. 1760- February 13, 1846) was an emancipated slave who was a leader in Portsmouth, New Hampshire's free Black community. She created New Hampshire's first school for Black children.
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Dindga McCannon (born July 31, 1947) is an African-American artist born and raised in New York City. She has had a multifaceted career as a fiber artist, muralist, teacher, author, and illustrator. McCannon co‑founded Where We At, a collective of Black…
early to mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn oval-shaped wood dining room table with cabriole legs ending in whorl feet. On underside, proper left side of table is black, stamped serial number [C-831-34-38F]. Leaf attached to table between sides.
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Dino Sean Babers (born July 19, 1961) is an American college football coach. He was most recently the offensive coordinator for the University of Arizona. He was previously the head coach at Syracuse University from 2016 until 2023. He has also served as…
1948–
Diola Bagayoko is a Malian-American professor of physics at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Dion Waiters Jr. (born December 10, 1991) is an American former professional basketball player who played eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 2012 to 2020. He played college basketball for the Syracuse Orange and was selected…
1996–
Dionne Brown (born 1995) is an English actress. After studying at the Arts Educational Schools and appearing in numerous stage productions of theirs, she began appearing in various television series. As well as appearing in the Apple TV+ series Criminal…
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Dionne Farris (born December 4, 1969) is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New Jersey, she began singing in elementary school and competed in pageants as a teenager. In the early 1990s, she was featured on the hip-hop group Arrested…
Biography
Dionne Irving is a Canadian writer, whose short story collection The Islands was shortlisted for the 2023 Giller Prize. Originally from Toronto, Ontario, she currently teaches in the creative writing and Initiative on Race and Resilience programs at the…
1922
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA diploma cover for W.D. (Willie) Williams a member of Booker T. Washington High School's class of 1922. The outside is made from a blue suede material. The front cover has a crest with gold lettering that reads [Booker T. Washington / Highschool / Willie…
July 8, 1960
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe diploma that Carlotta Walls received upon graduation from Little Rock Central High School. The diploma consists of black ink printed on white paper; [ Central High School ] is printed at the top along with an illustration of the school building.
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