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Yvonne Lara da Costa OMC (April 13, 1922 – April 16, 2018), better known as Dona Ivone Lara, was a Brazilian singer and composer. Known as the Queen of Samba and Great Lady of Samba, she was the first woman to sign a samba-enredo and take part in a wing of…
1922–2000
Neuma Gonçalves da Silva (8 May 1922 – 17 July 2000) was a Brazilian samba dancer. She began dancing samba in a small group at age seven and was president of the Mangueira samba school for multiple terms, establishing the institution's children's and…
1913–2003
Euzébia Silva de Oliveira, better known as Dona Zica (6 February 1913 – 22 January 2003), was a Brazilian samba dancer at the Mangueira Samba school in Rio de Janeiro, who went on to play an important role in the Mangueira favela.
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Donald Allen Bonner (June 22, 1935 – September 10, 2021) is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's forty-eighth House district, including constituents in Hoke, Robeson and Scotland counties. He is a retired…
1905–1999
Donald Anderson Edwards (5 January 1905 – 19 December 1999) was an American physicist. Edwards was the founding chair of the physics department at North Carolina A&T State University, and spent his career teaching there and at other historically Black…
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Donald Andrew Spencer Sr. (March 5, 1915 – May 4, 2010) was one of the first African American realtors in Cincinnati, the first African American broker to join the Cincinnati Board of Realtors, the first African American broker to serve as President of the…
1944–
Donald Bogle is an American film historian and author of six books concerning black history in film and on television. He is an instructor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Donald David DeFreeze (November 16, 1943 – May 17, 1974), also known as Cinque Mtume and using the nom de guerre "General Field Marshal Cinque", was an American man involved with the far-left radical group Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and convicted…
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Donald Jerome Driver (born February 2, 1975) is an American former professional football wide receiver who played for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for Alcorn State University, Driver was picked…
1935–2011
Donald H. "Duck" Richardson, Sr. (September 16, 1935 – September 4, 2011) was an American boys' basketball coach at Southwest Magnet High School in Macon, Georgia from 1971 to 1990. During that period, he coached future NBA players Jeff Malone, Ivano…
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Donald McKinley Glover Jr. (; born September 25, 1983), also known by his musical stage name Childish Gambino (), is an American actor, rapper, singer, comedian, and filmmaker. While he studied at New York University and after working in Derrick Comedy, a…
1967–
Donald Harris (born November 12, 1967) is an American former Major League Baseball player. He attended Texas Tech University.
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Donald Hill–Eley (born July 29, 1969) is an American football coach and former player. He was previously the head football coach at Alabama State University. A graduate of Virginia Union University, Hill-Eley's coaching career has spanned three decades,…
1934–2023
Donald Hinds (13 January 1934 – 13 March 2023) was a Jamaican-born writer, journalist, historian and teacher. He is best known for his work on the West Indian Gazette and his fiction and non-fiction books portraying the West Indian community in Britain,…
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Donald Jasper Harris (born August 23, 1938) is a Jamaican-American economist and emeritus professor at Stanford University, known for applying post-Keynesian ideas to development economics. He was a scholar granted tenure in the Stanford Department of…
1948–
Donald L. Graham (born December 15, 1948) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Graham was born in Salisbury, North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Arts from West Virginia…
1917–2004
Donald Lee Hollowell (December 19, 1917 – December 27, 2004) was an American civil rights attorney during the Civil Rights Movement, in the state of Georgia. He successfully sued to integrate Atlanta's public schools, Georgia colleges, universities and…
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Donald McKayle (July 6, 1930 – April 6, 2018) was an American modern dancer, choreographer, teacher, director and writer best known for creating socially conscious concert works during the 1950s and '60s that focus on expressing the human condition and,…
1929–2013
Donald Leopold Mullett (April 10, 1929 – April 19, 2013) was an American educator and academic administrator who served as interim president at three historically black universities: Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), Cheyney University of Pennsylvania,…
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Donald Porter Ryder (1926–2021) was an American architect and educator. He co-founded Bond Ryder & Associates with J. Max Bond Jr. and taught at the City College of New York from 1972 to 2001.
Biography
Donald Randolph Brown Sr. (died July 2009) was the first African American to attend dental school at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Dentistry in 1961, and the first to graduate, in 1965. Racism and segregation were common at that time,…
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Donald Douglas Scott (born February 23, 1992) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump. Scott earned bronze medal in triple jump at 2022 World Indoor Championships. He holds a wind-aided personal best of 17.74 m (58 ft 2+1⁄4…
1967–
Donald Wayne Smith (born October 6, 1967) is an American former football player and coach. He was the 26th head football coach at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, Kentucky, serving three seasons, from 2001 to 2003, and compiling a record of 13–20.…
1990–
Donavan Reed Tate (born September 27, 1990) is an American former college football quarterback for the University of Arizona Wildcats. Previously, he was a Minor League Baseball outfielder who was selected third overall by the San Diego Padres in the 2009…
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