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1968–
Rakie Olufunmilayo Ayola (born 11 May 1968) is a Welsh actress known for her work in theatre and television. She is best known for her role as Kyla Tyson in the BBC medical drama Holby City from its eighth to eleventh series. Ayola has also appeared in…
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Ralph Gardner-Chavis (December 3, 1922 – March 27, 2018) was an African American researcher, chemist, and educator. He is best known for his involvement in the Manhattan Project, where his research on plutonium would be used to develop the Fat Man atomic…
1952–
Ralph Lemon (born August 1, 1952 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American choreographer, company director, writer, visual artist and a conceptualist. Raised in a religious environment, he developed his artistic creativity as a child. Early in his career, Lemon…
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Ramón Carrillo (7 March 1906 – 20 December 1956) was an Argentine neurosurgeon, neurobiologist, physician, academic, public health advocate, and from 1949 to 1954 the nation's first Minister of Public Health.
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Ramona E. Douglass (died 2007) was an American activist. In addition to her work as a medical sales and marketing professional, she was a prominent advocate for multiracial Americans.
1928–2018
Ramona McCarthy Hawkins (July 31, 1928 – February 15, 2018) was a pioneering African-American pharmacist and research chemist from Maryland. In recognition of her work in pharmacy and for breaking barriers for African-American women in the pharmaceutical…
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Randal D. Pinkett (born 1971) is an American business consultant who in 2005 was the winner of season four of the reality television show The Apprentice. Pinkett is the first African American to win the American version of The Apprentice. With an…
1926–2013
Randolph Wilson ("Bill") Bromery (January 18, 1926 – February 26, 2013) was an American educator and geologist, and a former Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1971–79). While Chancellor, Bromery established the W.E.B. Du Bois Archives…
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Ranthony A. C. Edmonds is an American mathematician specializing in commutative ring theory, factorization theory, and applied algebraic topology. She is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of mathematics at the Ohio State University.
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Ras Asan Olugbenga (commonly known as Ras Asan), born as Derric James Studamire in Cleveland, Ohio (1990) is the co-founder of BREAUX and Company, a private equity social enterprise that is the majority shareholder and operator of BREAUX Capital, Million…
1979–
Rashaad Newsome (born 1979) is an American artist working at the intersection of technology, collage, sculpture, video, music, and performance. He lives and works in Oakland, California and Brooklyn, New York.
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Raven Baxter is an American science communicator and STEM educator. Baxter began posting science education videos on social media under the username Raven the Science Maven in 2017.
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Raye Jean Montague (née Jordan; January 21, 1935 – October 10, 2018) was an American naval engineer credited with creating the first computer-generated rough draft of a U.S. naval ship. She was the first female program manager of ships in the United States…
1915–2009
Raymond A. Brown (1915 – October 9, 2009) was an American criminal defense lawyer who represented a wide variety of high-profile clients, ranging from politicians to accused spies, including New Jersey state senator Angelo Errichetti (convicted in the…
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Raymond Lewis Johnson (born 1943) is an American mathematician, currently a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park and an adjunct professor of mathematics at Rice University. He was the first African-American student at Rice…
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Reatha Belle Clark King (born April 11, 1938) is an American chemist, the former vice president of the General Mills Corporation; and the former president, executive director, and chairman of the board of trustees of the General Mills Foundation, the…
1983–
Rebecca Bennett (née Reid; born 1983) is an American brewmaster. She has worked in various positions at Anheuser-Busch InBev, most recently serving as a senior quality manager in Baldwinsville, New York. She also held the assistant brewmaster post…
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Rebecca J. Cole (March 16, 1846 – August 14, 1922) was an American physician, organization founder and social reformer. In 1867, she became the second African-American woman to become a doctor in the United States, after Rebecca Lee Crumpler three years…
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Rebecca Hasson is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan. She researches the causes and consequences of pediatric obesity, how the environment impacts obesity related metabolic risk factors to inform health policies.
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Rebecca Allana Hubbard is an American biostatistician whose research interests include observational studies and the use of electronic health record data in public health analysis and decision-making, accounting for the errors in this type of data. She is…
1831–1895
Crumpler graduated from the New England Female Medical College in 1864 and devoted her career to treating formerly enslaved people and underserved communities.
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Rebecca Robinson, also known as PSNOB (pronounced "snob"), is a mixed media artist from Indianapolis, Indiana. Her work has been exhibited at the Chicago Museum of Science and History, Newfields, the Harrison Center, the Kurt Vonnegut Museum, and featured…
1966-1967
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis red Starfleet uniform was worn by Nichelle Nichols as the character Lt. Uhura on the television show Star Trek. The red mini-dress is made from synthetic velour fabric with gold braid details and a black knit collar. The dress has full-length fitted…
ca. 1972 (manufactured)
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG2015.29.20a: Nagra 4.2 recorder 2015.29.20b: 5 inch plastic reel 2015.29.20c: 7 inich plastic reel A metal NAGRA® 4.2 reel-to-reel audio recorder used by Russell Williams II as a sound engineer on film sets. The machine is silver in color. The front side…
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