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Fredrick DuBois Bowman is an American biostatistician who has been the 13th president of Morehouse College since July 15, 2025. He served as the 12th dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan from October 2018 to July 2025. Bowman's…
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Faith Ringgold (born Faith Willi Jones; October 8, 1930 – April 13, 2024) was an American painter, author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, and intersectional activist, perhaps best known for her narrative quilts. Ringgold was born in Harlem, New…
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Famous is the stage name of Ashton Bishop, a Canadian rapper and radio broadcaster. He is most noted for his 2008 EP I Rap Now, which received a Juno Award nomination for Rap Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2009. Originally from Montreal, he…
2010
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn off-white Florida A&M University Marching Band hat by Midway Cap Company. The round cap features a large F embroidered in gold thread, above more gold thread embroidery showing connected leaf patterns along the lower crown. A gold colored double link…
ca. 2010
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn off-white Florida A&M University Marching Band jacket (a) and pants (b). The single-breasted women’s wool jacket and men’s polyester and wool pants are embellished with gold colored thread embroidery and gold color metal buttons. The exterior of the…
1973
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn unopened, cellophane wrapped, “FAMU Spirit” compact disc of performances by the Florida A&M University Marching Band. The FAMU Spirit disc features an orange front and back cover background with black typeface. The front cover image shows the Marching…
1948–
Ronald L. "Fang" Mitchell (born February 8, 1948) is an American college basketball coach and the former head men's basketball coach at Coppin State University.
November 16, 2023
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn oral history interview and conversation with restorative justice advocate Dr. Fania Davis. It consists of three versions of a digital video recording, two camera card files (2025.12.10.1.1 and 2025.12.10.1.2, .mxf files) and one edited file…
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Frances Barrier Williams (February 12, 1855 – March 4, 1944) was an American educator, civil rights and women's rights activist, and the first black woman to gain membership to the Chicago Woman's Club. She became well known for her efforts to have black…
1882–1980
Fannie C. Williams (March 23, 1882 – June 12, 1980) was an American educator based in New Orleans. She was elected president of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools in 1930.
1872–1973
Fannie Cobb Carter (September 30, 1872 – March 29, 1973) was an American educator, humanitarian, and activist for school integration in the United States.
1927–2016
Fannie Ernestine Smith Motley (January 25, 1927 – May 8, 2016) was the first African-American graduate from Spring Hill College, a Jesuit institution in Mobile, Alabama. She entered the school in 1954.
1938–2023
Fannie Jean Gaston-Johansson (December 21, 1938 – January 7, 2023) was an American professor of nursing and university distinguished professor at Johns Hopkins University. Gaston-Johansson researched health disparities, pain management, and coping…
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Fannie Hopkins Hamilton (1882–1964) was an African-American dress maker and suffragist who joined the Equal Suffrage Study Club and uplifted the black community in Wilmington, Delaware. She was a leader, contributor, activist, and supportive teacher…
1840–1922
Fannie M. Richards (October 1, 1840 – February 13, 1922) was an American educator. She created the first kindergarten program in Michigan, and for that was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. She also protested against the segregation of…
1917–2016
Fannie Phelps Adams (née Fannie Delores Phelps; June 17, 1917 – May 30, 2016) was an American educator and activist from South Carolina. She was known for her commitment to helping encourage the minds of Black youth during Jim Crow. She is among the '101…
1858–1884
Fannie Smith Washington (1858 – May 4, 1884) was an American educator, and the first wife of Booker T. Washington. Before her premature death in 1884, Fannie Washington aided her husband in the early development of the Tuskegee Institute.
1837–1913
Born into slavery, Coppin became one of the first Black women to graduate from an American college and led the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia for decades.
1963–
Farah Jasmine Griffin (born 1963) is an American academic and professor specializing in African-American literature. She is William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies, chair of the African American and…
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Farah D. Lubin is an American neuroscientist and Professor of Neurobiology and Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham within the Heersink School of Medicine. Lubin is the Principal Investigator of the Lubin…
1972–
Farell Duclair (born May 10, 1972) is a former Canadian football fullback who played four seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL) with the Calgary Stampeders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He was drafted by the Stampeders with the eighth overall pick in…
1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA father figure painted rubber hand puppet by Childcraft. With his rubber arms and hands raised, the father puppet wears a medium gray single-breast blazer with black tie and white shirt. He has short brown hair, brown eyes, and the maker's mark…
1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA father figure painted rubber hand puppet by Childcraft. With his arms raised, the black-haired father puppet wears a gray suit jacket, red tie, and white shirt. His blazer features two waist pockets and two buttons on each long sleeve. He has short black…
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Fatima Cody Stanford is an American obesity medicine physician, internist, and pediatrician and an Associate Professor of medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She is one of the most highly cited scientists in the field of obesity. She is…
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