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Duwayne Lloyd Anthony Brooks (born 27 September 1974) is a British former politician who served as a councillor in the London Borough of Lewisham. He was a friend of Stephen Lawrence and was with him when he was murdered.
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Dwaine R. Caraway (born April 30, 1952) is an American former politician who served as the 60th mayor of Dallas in an interim capacity in 2011. He pleaded guilty in 2018 for taking bribes while serving as mayor pro tem. He served as a Dallas City Council…
1962–2011
Dwayne Glenn McDuffie (February 20, 1962 – February 21, 2011) was an American writer of comic books and television. He co-founded the pioneering minority-owned-and-operated comic book company Milestone Media, which focused on underrepresented minorities in…
1966–
Dwayne Sawyer (born 1966) is an American politician from the state of Indiana. A member of the Republican Party, Sawyer was the 55th Indiana state auditor. He resigned as state auditor on November 26, 2013, citing "personal and family reasons". Sawyer was…
1963–
Dwight Anthony Boykins is an American lobbyist and politician who served as a Democratic member of the Houston City Council representing District D from 2014 to 2019. He left the Council to run for Mayor of Houston in the 2019 election and is a candidate…
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Dwight Oliver Wendell Holmes (November 18, 1877 – September 7, 1963) was an American sociologist, civil rights activist, collegiate athlete, author, and served as the fifth president of Morgan State College from 1937 to 1948.
1963–2022
John Dwight Smith Sr. (November 8, 1963 – July 22, 2022) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for four teams from 1989 to 1996, primarily the Chicago Cubs. As a rookie with the Cubs, he batted .324 with 52 runs batted in (RBI) as…
2006–
Dylan Law (born 2006) is a British politician who has served as the Deputy Mayor of Hackney for the Green Party since 2026, and as a Hackney Councillor for Hackney Downs ward.
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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…
1959–2025
Elbert Darrell ("E. D.") Mondainé (1959–2025) was a pastor and political activist in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. He was ordained in 1982 as a Southern Baptist minister. He moved to Portland in 1985. In Portland, he founded the Celebration…
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Edgar Daniel Nixon (July 12, 1899 – February 25, 1987) was an American civil rights leader and union organizer in Alabama who played a crucial role in organizing the landmark Montgomery bus boycott there in 1955. The boycott highlighted the issues of…
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E. Denise Simmons (born October 2, 1951) is an American politician who served as the mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts from 2008 to 2009, again from 2016 to 2017, and a third mayoral term from 2024 to 2025. She was the first openly lesbian African-American…
1921–2009
Edward Earl Cleveland (March 11, 1921 – August 30, 2009) was an American writer, civil rights advocate and evangelist of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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…
1924–2009
Elonnie J. Josey (January 20, 1924 – July 3, 2009) was an African-American activist and librarian. Josey was the first chair of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, having been instrumental in its formation in 1970; served as president of…
1937–1993
E. Kitch Childs (April 11, 1937 – January 10, 1993) was a significant American clinical psychologist and an activist known for her participation in the women's liberation movement in North America during the "second wave" of feminism during the 1960s and…
Biography
Elishia Leon Thompson, Sr. (August 26, 1917 – May 14, 1990) was a policeman and state legislator from Arizona. He lived in Phoenix.
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Earl Walker Jackson Sr. (born January 13, 1952) is an American Protestant minister, lawyer, and perennial candidate. He was a candidate in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries.
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…
1962–
Eamonn Roderique Walker (born 12 June 1962) is a British actor. On television, he began in the BBC sitcom In Sickness and in Health (1985–1987), the ITV crime dramas The Bill (1988–1989), Supply & Demand (1998), and the HBO series Oz (1997–2003), for which…
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Earl Burrus Dickerson (June 22, 1891 – September 1, 1986) was an American attorney, activist, military officer and businessman who successfully argued before the United States Supreme Court in Hansberry v. Lee, and was a member of the Chicago City Council…
1947–2021
Earl Best (December 26, 1947 – December 27, 2021), a community organizer better known as the "Street Doctor", was a convicted bank robber who spent 10 years in solitary confinement and worked with the poor on the streets of Newark, New Jersey. He founded…
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…
1894–1985
Earl George was a leader in the Communist Party and International Longshore and Warehouse Union, photographer, and civil rights activist from Seattle.
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