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Deborah Cooper is an American professional dancer, musician, singer, backup singer, award-winning composer and entertainer, with several number one and top charting dance music and house music hits.
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Deborah Cox (born July 13, 1974) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. Born and raised in Toronto, she began performing on television commercials at age 12, and entered various talent shows in her teenage years before becoming a…
1949
Deborah Dancy, also known as Deborah Muirhead (born 1949), is an American painter of large-scale abstractions in oil; she is also a printmaker and mixed media artist. Her work is also known to encompass digital photography. In 1981, she began to teach at…
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Deborah E. McDowell (born 1951) is a scholar, author and member of the University of Virginia faculty since 1987 where she serves as the Alice Griffin professor of Literary Studies. In 2008 professor McDowell was named director of the Carter G. Woodson…
1968–
Deborah Grant (born 1968) is a Canadian-born African-American artist noted for her work in painting and collage, particularly for her series "Random Select". She lives and works in Harlem, New York.
1953–
Deborah Myers Mathis (born 24 August 1953) is an American journalist and author. Her journalism career began as a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat, a major newspaper in Arkansas. She also worked in television news in Little Rock and Washington.
1962–
Deborah Roberts (born 1962) is an American contemporary artist. Roberts is a mixed media collage artist whose figurative works depict the complexity of Black subjecthood and explores themes of race, identity, and gender politics taking on the subject of…
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Deborah Sara Santana (née King) is a peace and social justice activist for women and people of color, business manager, and author. She is the former wife of musician Carlos Santana.
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Deborah Willis (born February 5, 1948) is a contemporary African-American artist, photographer, curator of photography, photographic historian, author, and educator. Among her awards and honors, she is a 2000 MacArthur Fellow. She is currently Professor…
1959–
Debra J. Dickerson (born 1959) is an American author, editor, writer, and contributing writer and blogger for Mother Jones magazine. Dickerson has been most prolific as an essayist, writing on race relations and racial identity in the United States.
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Debra L. Lee (born August 8, 1954) is an American businesswoman. The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BET, the parent company for Black Entertainment Television from 2005-2018, Lee currently serves on the board of directors for Warner Bros.…
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Debra Wilson is an American actress and comedian. She is the longest-serving original cast member on the sketch comedy series Mad TV, having appeared on the show's first eight seasons from 1995 to 2003. As a voice actress, she has voiced various characters…
1997
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Debre Birhan Selassie church, Gondar, Ethiopia” (Negatives (photographic)).
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Débria M. Brown (October 26, 1936 – December 17, 2001) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international career that spanned five decades. She was part of the first generation of Black opera singers to achieve wide success and is…
undated
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Decal: "Member of the Professional Photographers Association" [in English and Afrikaans], in black and gold script.”.
[ca. 1910]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal caption reads: "A female corpse C.C.".
1983-10
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on slide reads, "Deceased Oba and Idris? museum driver. On Ila-Orangun road somewhere. B 10/83".
2004 November 8
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDeceased person, dressed and placed in red tent. Original Carousel number, 1, Slide number, 109.
1997
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis silkscreen print depicts four soldiers standing around a single seated man. The four soldiers stand with drawn swords pointed at the seated man. Two of the soldiers, with their backs to the viewer, wear long black coats. The other two soldiers wear…
late 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA deck of Bee playing cards from the travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway. The deck is housed in a thin, white, cardboard box with blue text and graphics on the front, back, and side edges. On the front of the pack, printed inside a thin blue frame…
ca. 1890s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal caption reads "Deck passengers. African Steamer.".
1936
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Deck with view from the MV Stirling Castle, South Africa” (Negatives (photographic)).
1966-1973
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Decorated Bambara carved figure, Mali” (Negatives (photographic)).
1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Decorated ceremonial stools, Imiaguese, Nigeria” (Negatives (photographic)).
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