Black and white image of women's hands. On the left side of the image is one pair of hands with the person holding a packet of cotton swabs, center, in their proper left hand. The person's proper left hand is rests on the finial of a chair back. In the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.10
Black and white image of two (2) women, Mary Francis Hill Coley and Martha Butler Sapp in an interior room of a house. Sapp is visibly pregnant and seated in a chair, wearing a terry cloth robe and a hair wrap. Coley stands in front of Sapp and rests her…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.30
Black and white image of two (2) women, one seated and one standing over the other. Both women stand in a room with a mantel and stove on the left side, a crib behind them up against the far wall as well as a door on the right. The stove can be seen in the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.38
Uraina Simone Clark is an American neuroscientist and Director of the Neuropsychology and Neuroimaging Laboratory at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her research makes use of functional magnetic resonance imaging to understand how stressors…
Urbane Francis Bass (April 4, 1880 – October 6, 1918) was an African-American medical doctor and first lieutenant in the United States Army who was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during the first World War.
Ursula M. Burns (born September 20, 1958) is an American businesswoman. Burns was the CEO of Xerox from 2009 to 2016. Burns was the first black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company.
Uzodinma Iweala (born November 5, 1982) is a Nigerian-American author and medical doctor. His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work (in creative writing) at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed African country.
V. Mitch McEwen (born 1978) is an American architect and urban planner, cultural activist, and assistant professor at the Princeton University School of Architecture. She is co-founder of Atelier Office, a design and cultural practice working within the…
Valencia Joyner Koomson is an American electrical engineer. She is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with secondary appointments in the Department of Computer Science and the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic…
Valerie Sheares Ashby is an American chemist and university professor who currently serves as president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She was the Dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University from 2015 to 2022 and…
Valerie Ellen Stone (born 1958) is an American physician who is a professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School. She served for many years as Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and…
Valerie Elaine Taylor (born May 24, 1963) is an American computer scientist who is the director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Her research includes topics such as performance analysis, power…
Valerie L. Thomas (born February 8, 1943) is an American data scientist and inventor. She invented the illusion transmitter, for which she received a patent in 1980. She was responsible for developing the digital media formats that image processing systems…
Vanderbilt Brown (May 25, 1886 – April 25, 1921) was an American physician in Virginia. He was one of the first physicians to finish training in World War I (as a part of the Medical Reserve Corps). He was assigned to 365th Ambulance Company in the 317th…
Vanessa Catherine Tyson is an American political scientist and politician. She is an associate professor of politics at Scripps College and a political science fellow at Stanford University. Tyson was an unsuccessful candidate for California's 57th State…
Vanessa Olivia Ezenwa is an American ecologist, and is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University. Her research considers the ecology of infectious diseases amongst animal populations. In 2020, she was selected by The Community of…
Vanessa Grubbs is a nephrologist and a writer based in Oakland, California. She is an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco. She works at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
Vanessa Northington Gamble (born 1953) is an American physician, professor, and activist best known for her work as chair of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee in 1996. She is currently the University Professor of Medical Humanities at George…
Wilson Vashon Eagleson (March 4, 1898 – March 10, 1933) was an American college football coach and professor. He was as the first head football coach at the North Carolina College for Negroes—now known as North Carolina Central University—in Durham, North…
Veatrice Rice (October 1, 1949 – January 21, 2009) was a nurse turned security guard and television personality, best known for her appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where she served as a sidekick for comedian Jimmy Kimmel. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, and…
Dr. Velma Scantlebury GCM also Velma Scantlebury-White (born 6 October 1955) is a Barbadian-born American transplant surgeon. She was the first Black woman transplant surgeon in the United States.
