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Tahira Reid Smith is an American inventor and mechanical engineering professor known for her invention of the automated Double Dutch machine.
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Talitha Washington (born 1974) is an American mathematician and academic who specializes in applied mathematics and STEM education policy. She was recognized by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2018 Honoree. Washington became the 26th…
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Talithia D. Williams is an American Statistician. She also serves as a Mathematician Professor and Mathematics Clinic Director at Harvey Mudd College, who researches the spatiotemporal structure of data. Williams was the first African American Woman to…
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Tamara Tunie (born March 14, 1959) is an American film, stage, and television actress, singer, director, and producer. She is best known for her roles as attorney Jessica Griffin on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns (1987–1995, 1999–2007, 2009) and as…
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Tambra Raye Stevenson is an African-American entrepreneur, nutrition educator, public speaker, policy advisor, inventor, and food justice activist. Stevenson founded WANDA (Women, Advancing, Dietetics and Nutrition) and NativSol Kitchen. She is a Nutrition…
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Tanisha Marie Williams is an American botanist and the founder of #BlackBotanistsWeek. Williams created the hashtag in 2020 as an initiative to promote Black botanists and to share their work and life experiences on social media. She was inspired after…
1966-04
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “[Tanzanian doctors give medical aid to village women]” (Color transparencies).
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “[Tanzanian women and children waiting for malaria shots], Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).
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Tasha Rose Inniss is an American mathematician and the vice provost for research at Spelman College.
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Tashard J. Choice (born November 20, 1984) is an American football coach and former player who currently serves as the running backs coach for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Tech Yellow…
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Aquarius Maximus formerly known as Tavonia Evans is an American author, businesswoman, cryptocurrency expert, and educator. She is the founder and creator of the cryptocurrency Guapcoin.
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Tawana Petty is an American author, poet, social justice organizer, mother and youth advocate who works to counter systemic racism. Petty formerly served as Director of Policy and Advocacy for the Algorithmic Justice League representing AJL in national and…
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Tawanna Dillahunt is an American computer scientist and professor of information based at the University of Michigan School of Information. In addition to her work in academia, Dillahunt also runs the Social Innovations Group, a research group that…
1900–1992
James T. "Ted" Chambers (November 6, 1900 – April 14, 1992) was an American football and soccer coach. He served as the head football coach at his alma mater, Howard University in Washington, D.C., in 1944, compiling a record of 1–4. He also began the…
1919–2007
Ted Corbitt (January 31, 1919 – December 12, 2007) was an American long-distance runner. The first African-American to run the marathon at the Summer Olympics (the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland) and the founding president of New York Road Runners,…
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Ted Ellis (born 1963) is an American artist and former environmental chemist. Ellis is best known for his African-American themed art and styles which blend elements of folk art, naturalism and impressionism. His personal rendition of Barack Obama in…
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Tekedra Nzinga Mawakana (formerly Jefferson; née McGee; born 1971) is an American businesswoman and lawyer and is the co-chief executive officer of Waymo. Previously, she was the company's chief operating officer, and prior employers have included Steptoe…
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Teodoro Fernandes Sampaio (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [teoˈdɔɾu feʁˈnɐ̃dʒis sɐ̃ˈpaju]; 7 January 1855 – 11 October 1937) was a Brazilian polymath and public intellectual who worked as an engineer, geographer, politician, and historian.
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Tequila Harris is an American mechanical engineer and professor. She is Professor of Manufacturing at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. She works on polymer processing and mechanical system design.
1994–
Terri Burns (born February 22, 1994) is an American investor and partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures). After joining the company in 2017 as a principal, she was promoted and became the youngest partner and first Black woman partner at GV in 2020.
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Terrance J. Tumey is an American former football player and coach. He became the director of athletics for Fresno State University on August 1, 2018, having been appointed June 21. Prior to Fresno State, he served as director of athletics at…
1975
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA 1975 first edition of the medical textbook titled [Textbook of Black-Related Diseases] by Dr. Richard Allen Williams with cased binding. The cover of the textbook is black with three stylized images of animal-like figures in red at top, including one…
November/December 1991
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis issue of The Angolite, Vol. 16, No. 6, has a cover with a black-and-white photograph behind black and white text. The photograph features a tombstone in the shape of a cross with the numbers "81902" in the center. The feature story of the issue is…
1939
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe Biology of the Cell Surface written by Earnest Everett Just. The front cover is red leather. The spine has black and gold accents [The Biology Of The Cell Surface / Just / Blakiston]. There are 392 pages. The interior cover has three signatures of…
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