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BIOGRAPHY
Music

Randy Jackson (Jacksons singer)

1961–

Steven Randall Jackson (born October 29, 1961) is an American singer and songwriter. He is the ninth child and youngest son in the Jackson family. Randy is the youngest Jackson brother and the second-youngest Jackson sibling before his sister Janet. Randy…

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Sports & Achievement

Randy Milligan

1961–

Randall Andre Milligan (born November 27, 1961) is an American former Major League Baseball first baseman who played from 1987 to 1994. He is currently a scout with the Baltimore Orioles of the Major League Baseball (MLB). Milligan is nicknamed "Moose". In…

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Sports

Ranel Young

2005–

Ranel Jerva Young (born 26 December 2005) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right winger for EFL Championship club Bristol City.

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Biography & Culture

Ransom Hunter

1825–1918

Ransom Hunter (March 14, 1825 – September 24, 1918) was an American businessman, landowner, community developer and philanthropist. He is believed to be the first Black man to own property in Gaston County, North Carolina. Between 1874 and 1913, Hunter…

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Biography & Culture

Raphael Morgan

Biography

Robert Josias "Raphael" Morgan (c. 1866 - July 29, 1922) was a Jamaican-American who is believed to be the first Black Eastern Orthodox priest in the United States. After being active in other denominations, including the AME Church, Church of England, and…

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Politics

Raphael Warnock

1969–

Raphael Gamaliel Warnock ( RAH-fee-el WOR-nok; born July 23, 1969) is an American politician and Mainline Protestant minister in the Baptist tradition serving as the junior United States senator from Georgia, a seat he has held since 2021. A member of the…

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Sports

Rarmani Edmonds-Green

1999–

Rarmani River Miguel Joseph Edmonds-Green (born 14 January 1999) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for EFL League One club Leyton Orient.

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Biography & Culture

Rasheedah Phillips

Biography

Rasheedah Phillips is an American artist, author, community activist and lawyer based in Philadelphia. She is the creator of The Afrofuturist Affair and, together with Camae Ayewa, the Black Quantum Futurism multidisciplinary artist collective.

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Literature

Rashida Renée

Biography

Rashida Renée Ward is an American fashion archivist and writer. She maintained the Tumblr "Fuck Rashida" that was dedicated to fashion worn primarily by Black women in the 1990s and early 2000s. Ward is known for her fashion critiques posted to her Twitter…

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Sacred and Ceremonial Objects

Rasta Church in Bedstuy, Blessing

2007; printed 2021

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A pigment print photograph depicting the Rastafarian community at the Brooklyn site of The Church Haile Selassie I, in the middle of a service. Captured within in the wooden pews on the side of church where the women sit, the priest presents an open book…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2022.18.5
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Sacred and Ceremonial Objects

Rasta Church in Bedstuy, Procession

2007; printed 2021

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A pigment print photograph depicting the Rastafarian community at the Brooklyn site of The Church Haile Selassie I, in the middle of a service. Men and women stand in wooden pews facing the red curtained front of the church where there is a candlelit altar…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2022.18.4
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Sports

Ravel Morrison

1993–

Ravel Ryan Morrison (born 2 February 1993) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for UAE Second Division League club Arabian Falcons. Morrison rose through the youth ranks at Manchester United where he was considered as one of their most…

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Music

Ravyn Lenae

1999–

Ravyn Lenae Washington (born January 22, 1999) is an American singer and songwriter from Chicago, currently signed to Atlantic Records and the Three Twenty Three Music Group. She is also a member of the musical collective Zero Fatigue. Her debut EP, Moon…

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Sports

Ray Downey

1968–

Raymond Tyler Downey (born September 23, 1968 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian former boxer who won a light middleweight bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics. In 1990, he won silver at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. He is a member of Nova Scotia's…

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Photographs and Still Images

Ray Francis

1972; printed February 2018

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A black-and-white photograph of Kamoinge Workshop member, Ray Francis, captured by Anthony Barboza. The close-up portrait depicts Francis from the neck up. He is facing the viewer with his head slightly tilted and turned towards the left side of the image.…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2022.39.9
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Photographs and Still Images

Ray Harmon

March 8, 2008; printed 2012

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A black-and-white photograph of Ray Harmon. He is wearing glasses and a dark colored jacket over a white collared shirt. He is also wearing a baseball cap with an "R" logo on it. The print is inscribed on the back.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.41.17
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Sports

Ray Jones

1988–2007

Raymond Barry Bankote Jones (28 August 1988 – 25 August 2007) was an English professional footballer who played as a striker. Jones spent his professional career at Queens Park Rangers, making his debut in the Football League Championship in April 2006.…

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Sports

Ray Keogh

Biography

Raphael Keogh was an Irish footballer, widely regarded as being the first black player in the League of Ireland. Raised in the south Dublin suburb of Milltown, Keogh initially played schoolboy football with Castleville and Home Farm before joining local…

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Civil Rights & Community

Ray Robinson

1937–1973

Perry Ray Robinson (12 September 1937 – c. 25 April 1973) was an African American activist from Alabama during the civil rights movement. He had been active in Mississippi and Washington, D.C., supporting the March on Washington and the Poor People's Campaign.

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Biography & Culture

Rayful Edmond

1964–2024

Rayful Edmond III (November 26, 1964 – December 17, 2024) was an American drug trafficker in Washington, D.C. in the 1980s. Edmond was largely responsible for having introduced crack cocaine into the Washington, D.C. area during the crack epidemic,…

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Education & Scholarship

Raymond C. Bowen

1934–2021

Raymond Cobb Bowen (September 19, 1934 – August 23, 2021) was an American biologist and academic administrator who served as president of Shelby State Community College in Memphis, Tennessee, and LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York.

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Biography & Culture

Raymond Caesar

1932–1987

Raymond Rodly Caesar, SVD (14 February 1932 – 18 June 1987) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Goroka in Papua New Guinea from 1980 until his death in 1987. He was the first African American to serve as a Catholic bishop…

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Civil Rights & Community

Raymond Parks

1903–1977

Raymond Arthur Parks (February 12, 1903 – August 19, 1977) was an American activist in the civil rights movement and barber, best known as the husband of Rosa Parks.

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Slavery and Freedom Objects

Razor owned by Pvt. Marquis Peterson, Co. F, 55th Mass. Vol. Inf.

1850s-1860s

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A razor owned by Marquis Peterson. The handle is dark colored wood with raised lettering on one side that reads “ORIGINAL PIPE RAZOR.” The lettering has remnants of gold flake. A makers mark in the shape of a pipe is engraved on the blade near the handle…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.78.4
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