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Jermaine Gales (born c. 1975) is an American college football coach. He is the associate head football coach and offensive coordinator for Waldorf University, positions he has held since 2026. He was the head football coach for Lincoln University in…
1984–
Jermaine Jenkins (born November 20, 1984) is an American tennis coach for players such as Naomi Osaka, having previously been one of Venus Williams' hitting partners. He played collegiately for Clemson University and is the brother of Jarmere Jenkins.
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Jerod Andrew Mayo Sr. (born February 23, 1986) is an American former professional football coach and former linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons with the New England Patriots. He also served as the head coach of the…
1981–
Jerod Mixon (born May 24, 1981) is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. He is known for portraying Weensie in Old School. He is the older brother of actor Jamal Mixon.
1954–
Jerome Amos Jr. (born 1954) is an American politician, teacher and former machinist who has represented the 62nd district in the Iowa House of Representatives since January 2023, which consists of parts of northeast Black Hawk County, including much of…
1966–
Jerome Conley (born 1965, Muncie, Indiana) is a former Mayor of Oxford, Ohio. He is the Dean of University Libraries at Miami University. Appointed in 2013, Dean Conley has been working for Miami University in several capacities starting in 1992.
?–1995
Jerome Thomas Evans Jr. was a black high school football coach in the state of North Carolina during the 1950s through the 1970s. He became head football coach at Walter M. Williams High School in 1970, later serving as assistant principal. He died on…
1916–1985
Jerome Heartwell "Brud" Holland (January 9, 1916 – January 13, 1985) was an American university president and diplomat. He was the first African American to play college football at Cornell University, and was chosen as an All American in 1937 and 1938. He…
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Jerry L. Baldwin is an American college football coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette from 1999 to 2001, compiling a record of 6–27. He was an assistant coach at Louisiana Tech University from 1982 to 1991…
1967–
Jerome Edward Brooks (born March 23, 1967) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Florida Marlins. He played in 17 games during the 1993 and 1996 seasons. He also played for the Nippon-Ham Fighters of the Japanese…
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Jerry Craft (born January 22, 1963) is an American cartoonist and children's book illustrator best known for his syndicated newspaper comic strip Mama's Boyz and his graphic novels New Kid, Class Act, and School Trip.
1959–
Jerry Lee Eaves (born February 8, 1959) is an American head college basketball coach and athletic director at Simmons College of Kentucky in Louisville. He is the former head men's basketball coach at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State…
1980–
Jerry Mack (born October 24, 1980) is an American college football coach and former player who is currently the head football coach at Kennesaw State University. Mack served as the head football coach at North Carolina Central University from 2014 to 2017,…
1973-1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA Grambling State football jersey worn by Doug Williams. It is ahort-sleeve, cut-off, mesh-style, crew-neck jersey. It is black with gold and white lettering and stripes. There is a large number [12] in gold with white outlines on the front of the jersey…
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Jesmyn Ward (born April 1, 1977) is an American novelist and a professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel Salvage…
1960–
Jess Mowry (born March 27, 1960, near Starkville, Mississippi) is an American author of books and stories for children and young adults. He has written eighteen books and many short stories for and about black children and teens in a variety of genres,…
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Jessamyn Stanley is an American yoga teacher and body positivity advocate and writer. She gained recognition through her Instagram posts showing her doing yoga as a "plus-size woman of color," who self-identifies as a "fat femme" and "queer femme." She is…
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Jesse Gilbert Campbell Jr. (born April 11, 1969) is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, and the New York Giants. He played college football…
1927–1991
Jesse Clements Jr. (March 7, 1927 – April 1, 1991) was an American college football and college basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at St. Augustine's College—now known as St. Augustine's University—in Raleigh, North Carolina from 1963…
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Jesse Dwight Locker (May 31, 1891, College Hill, Cincinnati – April 10, 1955, Monrovia, Liberia) was an attorney, politician and, when he was appointed the American ambassador to Liberia, the second African American appointed as ambassador. His father,…
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Jesse Chisholm Duke (March 7, 1853 – January 23, 1916) was a religious and political leader in Alabama who established and edited the Baptist Montgomery Herald newspaper and served as a Selma University trustee. He advocated for civil rights for African…
1837–1860
Jesse Ewing Glasgow Jr. (c. 1823 – 20 December 1860) was an African-American intellectual from Philadelphia, who studied at the University of Edinburgh from 1858 to 1860. He authored the radical pamphlet on John Brown's Harper's Ferry Raid in 1859.
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Jesse "Cheese" Hameen II was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is a jazz drummer, percussionist, mentor, and educator. He plays the drums, and percussion instruments for over 40 years.
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Jesse James Holland Jr. (born June 28, 1971) is an American journalist, author, television personality and educator. He was one of the first African American journalists assigned to cover the Supreme Court full-time, and only the second African American…
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