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Eliza Isabelle Mitchell Jackson (née Eliza Isabelle Mitchell; December 31, 1848 – October 6, 1942) commonly known as E. Belle Jackson, was an American educator, activist, small business owner, and abolitionist from Kentucky. Jackson was one of the founders…
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Evan Dale Abel (born 1963) is an American endocrinologist who serves as chair of the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, succeeding Alan Fogelman who stepped down after 29 years. His works on the molecular mechanisms that…
1950–
Eugene Ethelbert Miller (born November 20, 1950) is an African-American poet, teacher and literary activist, based in Washington, DC. He is the author of several collections of poetry and two memoirs, was the editor of Poet Lore magazine, and is the host…
1959–
Ester James Junior III (born December 8, 1959) is an American former football player and coach. He played as a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons, from 1981 to 1993, with the St. Louis / Phoenix Cardinals, the Miami Dolphins,…
1906–1957
Eldis Lilyan Spencer (December 16, 1906 – January 24, 1957) was an American tennis player, basketball coach, teacher and school administrator from the Villa Mitchell neighborhood of Tallahassee, Florida. Spencer blazed trails as a tennis player, winning…
1967–
Elondust Patrick Johnson (born March 1, 1967) is an American academic scholar and artist best known as the creator of Quare theory. He is dean of the School of Communication and Annenberg University Professor of Performance Studies and African-American…
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Eustace Edward Ricardo Braithwaite (June 27, 1912 – December 12, 2016), publishing as E. R. Braithwaite, was a Guyanese-born British-American novelist, writer, teacher and diplomat best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination…
1955–
Etheleen Renee Shipp (born June 6, 1955) is an American journalist and columnist. As a columnist for the New York Daily News, she was awarded the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for "her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues." She…
1934–2020
Elijah Walter Miles (usually published as E. Walter Miles; May 4, 1934 – July 8, 2020) was an American political scientist and scholar of constitutional law. He specialized in the Constitution of the United States and the judicial process. He spent more…
1924–1993
Earl C. Banks (June 11, 1924 – October 27, 1993) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head coach at Morgan State College—now known as Morgan State University—from 1960 to 1973, compiling a record of…
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Earl Daniel Barron Jr. (born 1981) is an American basketball coach and former professional player. He played college basketball at the University of Memphis and later played for several NBA teams.
1900–1980
Earl Louis Brown (July 24, 1900 – April 13, 1980) was an American Negro league pitcher, journalist, and politician. A native of Charlottesville, Virginia, Brown attended Harvard University, where he was a star pitcher for the Crimson. He graduated from…
1937–
Earl David Shaw (born 26 November 1937) is an American physicist and professor, known for his work in laser science and developing laser technology. He is credited as the co-founder of the spin-flip Raman tunable laser.
1962–
Earl Gilbert "Butch" Graves Jr. (born January 5, 1962) is an American businessman and retired basketball player. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he is a Scarsdale High School graduate.
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Earl Gilbert Graves Sr. (January 9, 1935 – April 6, 2020) was an American entrepreneur, publisher, businessman, philanthropist, and advocate of African-American businesses. A graduate of Morgan State University, he was the founder of Black Enterprise…
1967–
James Earl "Air" Harvey (born June 26, 1967) is an American former football player. As the quarterback for North Carolina Central University during the 1980s, he set NCAA Division II career records with 10,621 passing yards, 86 touchdown passes, and 10,667…
1973–
Earl L. Holmes (born April 28, 1973) is an American former professional football linebacker and former head coach at Florida A&M University. He was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fourth round of the 1996 NFL draft out of Florida A&M University.…
Loading image…1928–2015
Earl Francis Lloyd (April 3, 1928 – February 26, 2015) was an American professional basketball player and coach. He was the first African American player to play a game in the National Basketball Association (NBA). An All-American player at West Virginia…
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Earl Louis Stewart (born August 11, 1950) is an author, essayist, poet, professor emeritus of The College of Creative Studies and the Black Studies department at the University of California Santa Barbara and an American composer of intellectual jazz as…
Loading image…1936–2014
Earl John Robinson (November 3, 1936 – July 4, 2014) was an American professional baseball outfielder and third baseman who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Baltimore Orioles. He attended the University of California,…
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Earl Wiley Renfroe (January 9, 1907 – November 14, 2000) was an African-American dentist known as an innovator in the field of orthodontics and for breaking down the barriers of racism. Renfroe taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of…
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Robert Earl Wilson (born Earl Lawrence Wilson) (October 2, 1934 – April 23, 2005) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of eleven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox (1959–1960, 1962–1966), Detroit…
1970
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Earnest Collins Jr. is an American college football coach, most recently for the University of Northern Colorado, a position he held from 2011 to 2019. Collins also served as the head football coach at Alcorn State University for the 2009 and 2010 seasons.…
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