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Leroy Cudjoe (born 7 April 1988) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who last played as a Second-row for the Huddersfield Giants in the Super League. A product of the Huddersfield academy system, Leroy is a club legend, he was the…
1967–
Leroy F. Moore Jr. (November 2, 1967- ) is a Black American writer, poet, community activist, musician, paralympian, and 2x Sports Emmy winner. He was born in 1967 in New York City.
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Leroy Halirou Bohari Lita (born 28 December 1984) is an English football player and coach who is currently a professional development phase coach at the Sunderland Academy. Lita was a product of the Chelsea youth system but never made a first-team…
1924–2011
Leroy Branch Looper (November 24, 1924 – September 11, 2011), was an American community organizer and founder of several low-income housing facilities, programs for addiction recovery, and education initiatives in San Francisco. He was known by locals as…
1964–
Leroy De Graft Rosenior (born 24 August 1964) is a football coach and pundit. He is a former footballer whose clubs included Fulham, Queens Park Rangers, Bristol City and West Ham United. Rosenior represented his birthplace England as a youth…
1911–1989
Leroy Smith (1911–1989) was an African American entrepreneur and activist. Born in Eufaula, Oklahoma, he later moved to Denver, Colorado where he became well known to the business community. Smith is notable for being Colorado's first African American…
1943–2013
Leroy Roosevelt "Sugarfoot" Bonner (March 14, 1943 – January 26, 2013) was a musician, vocalist, and producer. Born in Hamilton, Ohio, about 20 miles (32 km) north of Cincinnati in 1943, Bonner grew up poor, the oldest of 14 children. He ran away from home…
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LeRoy Whitfield (September 19, 1969 – October 9, 2005) was an African-American freelance journalist who chronicled his personal experience with HIV infection and AIDS. He was hailed by many as one of the nation's leading journalists reporting on AIDS in…
1984–
Leslie Samuel Afful (born 4 February 1984) is an English footballer currently with Southern League club Taunton Town.
1992-1993
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA framed Hermès silk scarf titled “Les Amériques” designed by Kermit Oliver and manufactured by Hermès Soie et Textiles. The scarf was commissioned by Hermès and first issued in 1992 to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage.…
2004–
Leslie Toluwani Adetokunbo Okikiola Ayomipo Adekoya (born 18 April 2004) is an Irish professional footballer who most recently played for Northern Premier League Division One West club Runcorn Linnets leaving after one appearance
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Leslie Barlow is an American visual artist in Minneapolis, Minnesota, predominantly focused on paintings that discuss themes of multiculturalism, identity, and family. Though Barlow is known primarily for oil painting, she also works with mixed media,…
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Leslie Pinckney Hill (14 May 1880 – 15 February 1960) was an American educator, writer, and community leader. From 1913 to 1951, he served as principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia and oversaw the institution's move to Cheyney,…
1943–
Leslie Stephen "Teacher" Palmer, (born 21 August 1943), is a Trinidadian community activist, writer and teacher, who migrated in the 1960s to the UK, where he became involved in music and the arts in West London. He is credited with developing a successful…
1944–2018
Leslie Wyche (1944–2018) was a New York City community activist, and a long time Harlem resident. He was known in Harlem as the uptown neighborhood's honorary mayor. He liked being the Harlem Mayor, and is quoted in the New York Times as saying, “I’m the…
ca. 1966
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is the Lesser Chrysoprase ring designed and created by jeweler Art Smith. The ring has split sterling silver band and a large, green chrysoprase cabochon in the center. The chrysoprase stone is smoothly polished into an oval shape and set into a…
1912–1997
Lester Oliver Bankhead (1912–1997), was an American architect, known for his modernist church designs. In the 1950s, he was a pioneering Black architect in Los Angeles, California. His architecture firm went by the names Bankhead's Building Design…
1882–1965
Lester Aglar Walton (April 20, 1882 – October 16, 1965) was a St. Louis-born Harlem Renaissance polymath and intellectual, a well-known figure in his day, who advanced civil rights in significant and prescient ways in journalism, entertainment, politics,…
1958; printed 1995
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black and white silver gelatin photograph depicting two men speak near the Five Spot Café in The Bowery, New York City, 1958. Standing close together opposite a large glass window, Lester Young on the left, wears a hat, pants suit and tie, long coat. He…
1953; printed 1953
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black and white offset lithograph titled “Let’s Walk Together” by Charles White. The lithograph depicts seven people walking together towards the viewer. At the forefront are two people, a man on the left and a woman on the right. The man is wearing a…
1973
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDocumentary film that follows an African American seminary student at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Maxwell Owusu Ansah (born 14 September 1984), known professionally as Lethal Bizzle, is a British rapper from Walthamstow, London, of Ghanaian origin. He emerged in 2002 as a grime MC as part of More Fire Crew, with their grime single "Oi!" charting in the…
1972–
Carita Letitia Huckaby (née Jenkins, born 1972) is an American photographer who creates multimedia artwork combining photography and textiles to depict both family narratives and African-American history.
1853
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Letter and envelope on Department of State letterhead to Mr. [illegible] from William Langerman, member of the House of Representatives” (Text).
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