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Bernardo José de Monteagudo y Cáceres (1789–1825) was a political activist and revolutionary. He took part in the liberation struggles against the Spanish Empire in South America, particularly in Argentina. He was born in Tucumán in Argentina, and was…
1950–2021
Bernette Ford (June 30, 1950 – June 20, 2021) was an American author, editor and publisher. She worked as editor-in-chief at Grosset & Dunlap and later Scholastic Books, where she was vice-president of the Cartwheel imprint, which she helped launch. She…
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Bernette Joshua Johnson (born June 17, 1943) is an American lawyer from New Orleans, who served as the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 2013 to 2020. She is the first African American to serve in this position, and succeeded Catherine D.…
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Bernice B. Donald (née Bouie; born September 17, 1951) is an American lawyer and former federal judge. She served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 2011 to 2023. She previously served as a…
1910–1969
Bernice Edwards (c. 1907 – February 26, 1969) was an American classic female blues singer, pianist and songwriter. She recorded a total of 21 tracks between 1926 and 1935. Unusually for a female blues performer at the time, Edwards composed some of her…
1926–2018
Bernice Irene Sumlin (November 29, 1926 – January 11, 2018) was an American educator. She became the nineteenth international president of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority in 1974. She was a national vice president of the National Council of Negro Women.
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Bernice Johnson Reagon (October 4, 1942 – July 16, 2024) was an American song leader, composer, professor of American history, curator at the Smithsonian, and social activist. In the early 1960s, she was a founding member of the Freedom Singers, organized…
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Bernice Albertine King (born March 28, 1963) is an American lawyer, minister, and the youngest child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. Just one week after her fifth birthday, her father was assassinated. In her…
1897–1936
Bernice Love Wiggins (also Bernice Love Clay, March 4, 1897 – January 27, 1936) was an African-American poet writing during the Harlem Renaissance period. Her work was published in the El Paso Herald, the Chicago Defender, the Houston Informer, and other…
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Bernice L. McFadden (born September 26, 1965) is an American novelist. She has also written humorous erotica under the pseudonym Geneva Holliday. Author of fifteen novels, she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Tulane University in New Orleans.
1939–2021
Bernice Compton Mitchell (October 27, 1939 – May 8, 2021) was the first African American woman to be elected as county commissioner in Payne County, Oklahoma, and only the second woman in the state of Oklahoma to serve in this position. She served from…
1914–1994
Bernice Robinson (1914–1994) was an American activist in the Civil Rights Movement and education proponent who helped establish adult Citizenship Schools in South Carolina. Becoming field supervisor of adult education for the Southern Christian Leadership…
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Bernard Tyrone Bickerstaff (born February 11, 1944) is an American basketball coach and front office executive, currently serving as the Senior Basketball Advisor for the Detroit Pistons. As a coach, he previously worked as the head coach for the NBA's…
1939–2017
Bernard Terry Casey (June 8, 1939 – September 19, 2017) was an American professional football player and actor. He was a football player and All-American hurdler at Bowling Green State University, before playing professionally as a wide receiver in the…
1944–2000
Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant (17 February 1944 – 8 April 2000) was a British politician who was the Member of Parliament for Tottenham, London, from 1987 to his death in 2000. He was a member of the Labour Party.
1900–2001
Bernie Haynes Robynson (1900—2001), was an American printmaker, illustrator, graphic artist, and educator. He is associated with graphic arts history within the Harlem Renaissance, a Black cultural movement of the 1920s in New York City.
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Bernard Jeffrey McCullough (October 5, 1957 – August 9, 2008), known professionally as Bernie Mac, was an American stand-up comedian, actor and film producer. His most noted film roles were as Frank Catton in the Ocean's film series from 2001 through 2007…
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Bernard A. Parmalee (born September 16, 1967) is an American football coach and former running back who is the running backs coach for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as the running backs coach for the…
1956–
Bernie Saunders (born June 21, 1956) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played 10 games in the National Hockey League for the Quebec Nordiques during the 1979–80 and 1980–81 seasons. Saunders was the fifth Black hockey player to…
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Bernard Williams (born October 8, 1948) is an American former professional baseball left fielder, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants (1970–1972) and San Diego Padres (1974). Williams played in a total of 102 major league…
Loading image…1944–2016
George Bernard Worrell, Jr. (April 19, 1944 – June 24, 2016) was an American keyboardist and record producer, best known as a founding member of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective and a touring member of Talking Heads in the 1980s.
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Bernita Sims was the mayor of High Point, North Carolina. She was elected November 6, 2012 with 33% of the vote. Sims, a Democrat, was the city's first African American mayor. On November 18, 2013, Sims was indicted by a Guilford County grand jury for…
Biography
Beronda Montgomery is a writer, science communicator, and researcher. She has spent more than 20 years as a professor and academic administrator at Michigan State University and Grinnell College. Her research has centered on how photosynthetic organisms…
1929–
Gordy built Motown into one of the most successful Black-owned businesses in American history, launching the careers of countless legendary artists.
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