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BIOGRAPHY
Arts & Performance

D. L. Hughley

1963–

Darryl Lynn Hughley (; born March 6, 1963 or 1964) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. Hughley is best known as the original host of BET's ComicView from 1992 to 1993, the eponymous character on the ABC/UPN sitcom The Hughleys, and as one of the…

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Film & Television

D'Lo Brown

1973–

Accie Julius Connor (born October 22, 1973), better known by his ring name D'Lo Brown (also formatted as D-Lo Brown), is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he works as a producer. He is best known…

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Literature

D. M. Bradford

Biography

Darby Minott Bradford is a Canadian poet based in Montreal, Quebec, whose debut poetry collection Dream of No One But Myself was published in 2021.

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

D.M.C. - Hollis, Queens '87

1987; printed 2003

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A black-and-white photograph of D.M.C. (Darryl McDaniels) riding in an ice cream truck in Hollis, Queens. McDaniels is pictured crouching in the open doorway of the truck, wearing a white paper hat and white jacket over an Adidas track jacket. He also…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.132.338
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BIOGRAPHY
Music

D-Maub

1978–

Don Errick Montra "Donny" Harper (born March 13, 1978), who goes by the stage name D-Maub (Dedicated to Making All Underestimaters Believers), is an American Christian hip hop musician. His first studio album, Timeline, came out in 2005, with One Route…

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BIOGRAPHY
Film & Television

D'Mitch Davis

1941–

D’Mitch Davis (born July 15, 1941) is an American actor and musician best known for his roles as the Axminster in the 1990s TV show MacGyver, and the Bartender in the 1985 film Weird Science.

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BIOGRAPHY
Music

D Mob

1963–

Daniel Kojo Poku (born May 26, 1963), also known by various stage names including D Mob (or D-Mob), Dancin' Danny D or simply Danny D , is a British music producer and remixer. His most notable tracks were "We Call It Acieed" (1988), which helped…

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Music

D-Nice

1970–

D-Nice is the stage name of Derrick T. Jones (born June 19, 1970), an American DJ, record producer, and rapper who began his career in the mid-1980s with the hip hop group Boogie Down Productions. He discovered KRS-One in 1988, landing him a deal with Jive…

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Music

D.O.

Biography

D.O. (a.k.a. Defy the Odds; real name Duane Michael Gibson ) is a Canadian rapper, motivational speaker and author. He is known for setting the Guinness World Record for the longest freestyle rap in 2003.

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Film & Television

D-Ray 3000

1982–

Dorian Hill (born August 9, 1982) is an American professional wrestler, better known under his ring name D-Ray 3000. He is best known for his stint in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

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Historical photographs & documents

D – S

1870

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Cataloged as “D – S”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1908, Item 2.1.5.5.2
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Music

D-Shot

1969–

Danell LaShawn Stevens Sr. (born December 12, 1969), better known as D-Shot, is an American rapper from Vallejo, California. D-Shot got his start as a member of the rap group the Click, which also included his siblings E-40 and Suga-T, as well as his…

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Arts & Performance

D. Smith

1975–

D. Smith (born July 20, 1975) is an American singer-songwriter, reality television personality, and documentary filmmaker. He worked on Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III, which was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2009 Grammy Awards and won Best Rap Album.…

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Literature

D. T. Pollard

Biography

D.T. Pollard is the pen name of Danny Pollard, the African-American author of Rooftop Diva: A Novel of Triumph After Katrina and The Trophy Wife Network. Rooftop Diva was listed as the #1 fiction paperback in a list of local bestsellers from Jokae's…

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BIOGRAPHY
Film & Television

D'Urville Martin

1939–1984

D'Urville Martin (February 11, 1939 – May 28, 1984) was an American actor in both film and television. He appeared in numerous 1970s movies in the blaxploitation genre. He also appeared in two unaired pilots of what would become All in the Family as Lionel…

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BIOGRAPHY
Film & Television

D-Von Dudley

1972–

Devon Hughes ( DEE-von; born August 1, 1972) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE under a legends contract. He is best known for performing in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) from 1995 to 1999 and for the World Wrestling…

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Historical photographs & documents

D – W

1868

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Cataloged as “D – W”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, Item 5.17.4.6
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Literature

D. Watkins

1980–

Dwight "D." or "Doc" Watkins (born February 10) is an author, HBO writer, and professor at The University of Baltimore. Watkins is a professor at the University of Baltimore and New York Times bestselling author from East Baltimore.

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Historical photographs & documents

D – Y

1868

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Cataloged as “D – Y”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1903, Item 3.1.4.2.2
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Historical photographs & documents

D133 – F357

1866

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Cataloged as “D133 – F357”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1904, Item 2.1.7.2
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Music

D4vd

2005–

David Anthony Burke (born March 28, 2005), known professionally as D4vd, is an American singer-songwriter. Born in Queens, New York City, and raised in Houston, Texas, Burke began composing music in 2021 for his Fortnite gameplay montages. He first…

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BIOGRAPHY
Music

Da Brat

1974–

Shawntae Harris-Dupart (née Harris; born April 14, 1974), known professionally as Da Brat, is an American rapper. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, she began her career in 1992 and signed with Jermaine Dupri's So So Def Recordings two years later to…

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MUSEUM OBJECT
gelatin silver prints

Da Judge

1930s

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Da Judge - City Hall Basement, Brooklyn, New York, 1930's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 28. A black-and-white photograph of a New York judge sitting on the bench.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.74.29
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Literature

DaBaby

1991–

Jonathan Lyndale Kirk (born December 22, 1991), known professionally as DaBaby (formerly Baby Jesus), is an American rapper. After releasing several mixtapes between 2014 and 2018, he signed with Interscope Records in January 2019. His debut studio album,…

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