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BIOGRAPHY
Music

Dej Loaf

1991–

Deja Monét Trimble (born April 8, 1991), known professionally as Dej Loaf (stylized as DeJ Loaf), is an American rapper and singer from Detroit, Michigan. She is best known for her 2014 single "Try Me" and its 2015 follow-up, "Back Up" (featuring Big…

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Biography & Culture

Dej Mahoney

Biography

Dej Mahoney, born Ayodeji Mahoney, is a British legal and business consultant in the entertainment and related sectors, with more than 30 years' experience within the music and media industries. His career has encompassed being an entertainment lawyer and…

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Historical photographs & documents

Delacorte Press: For Immediate Release

October 1997

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Cataloged as “Delacorte Press: For Immediate Release” (Text).

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.A2013.149.3, Item 4
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Biography & Culture

Delaina Dixon

Biography

Delaina Dixon is an entertainment journalist and television host. She was a co-host of VH1's morning show The Gossip Table and is the editor-in-chief of the entertainment and lifestyle website DivaGalsDaily.com.

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Arts & Performance

Delainey Hayles

1999–

Delainey Hayles is a British actress. She is known for her role as Claudia in the AMC television series Interview with the Vampire since 2023. Hayles has appeared in various television series, short films, and stage productions, including the role of Lucy…

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Arts & Performance

Delanie Forbes

1976–

Delanie Forbes (born May 1976 in Sidcup, London) is an English actress based in East Sussex. She is best known for her childhood role of Cassie Carpenter in BBC's EastEnders. Forbes attended a secondary school in Eltham, South East London, and she was also…

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BIOGRAPHY
Music

Dele Fadele

1962–2018

Ayodele Fadele (8 August 1962 – March 2018) was an English musician and music journalist who was active from the mid-1980s. He wrote for the NME in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was one of the first music critics to introduce then emerging US rap…

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Education & Scholarship

Dele Jegede

1945–

Dele Jegede (stylized as dele jegede) is a Nigerian-American painter, art historian, cartoonist, curator, art critic, art administrator, and teacher. Jegede was a Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, (1995). He…

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Books and Published Materials

Delegate

1979

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A 1979 issue of Delegate magazine published by MelPat Associates. The cover of the magazine features a blue ribbon that reads [1979 / DELEGATE] on a collage of cropped black and white photographic portraits with a yellow tint. The spine of the magazine is…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.167.13
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Books and Published Materials

Delegate

1980

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A 1980 issue of Delegate magazine published by MelPat Associates. The cover of the magazine features a red ribbon that reads [1980 / DELEGATE] on a collage of black and white portrait photographs. The magazine has a white spine with black text that reads…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.167.14
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Books and Published Materials

Delegate

1982

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A 1982 issue of Delegate magazine published by MelPat Associates. The cover of the magazine features a green ribbon that reads [1982 / DELEGATE] against a grid of black and white portrait photographs. The top two (2) and bottom two (2) rows of photographs…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.167.16
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Books and Published Materials

Delegate

1984

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A 1984 issue of Delegate magazine published by MelPat Associates. The cover of the magazine is white with an image of the Olympic rings, all red except the bottom left ring, which has been replaced by a blue ribbon badge with text that reads [1984 /…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.167.18
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Books and Published Materials

Delegate

1975

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A 1975 issue of Delegate magazine published by MelPat Associates. The cover of the magazine shows a collage of black and white photographic portraits with a red tinted band on the top third, a white band in the middle, and a blue tinted band on the bottom…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.167.9
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Arts & Performance

Delia Bennett

1892–1976

Delia Bennet (1892–1976) was an American artist. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective, and is said to be "the matriarch of perhaps the largest family of quilt producers in Gee's Bend. Her work is included in the collection of the…

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Literature & Journalism

Delia Garlic

Dates not recorded

Delia Garlic (c. 1837 – ?) was a formerly enslaved woman originally from Virginia. Garlic is best known for her first-hand account of slavery, the Civil War, and post-emancipation freedom. In 1937 when she was one hundred years old, the Federal Writers'…

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Education & Scholarship

Delia Jarrett-Macauley

1958–

Delia Jarrett-Macauley , also known as Dee Jarrett-Macauley, is a London-based British writer, academic and broadcaster of Sierra Leonean heritage. Her debut novel, Moses, Citizen & Me, won the 2006 Orwell Prize for political writing, the first novel to…

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BIOGRAPHY
Literature

Delilah Beasley

1867–1934

Delilah Leontium Beasley (September 9, 1867 – August 18, 1934), was an American historian and newspaper columnist for the Oakland Tribune in Oakland, California. Beasley was the first African American woman to be published regularly in a major metropolitan…

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Education & Scholarship

Delilah Pierce

1904–1992

Delilah Williams Pierce (March 3, 1904 – 1992) was an African American artist, curator and educator based in Washington, District of Columbia. Pierce is best known for abstract paintings depicting the natural world. Her work also includes portraiture,…

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BIOGRAPHY
Medicine & Health

Delisa Newton

1934–2004

Delisa Newton (1934–2004) was an American nurse and jazz vocalist. She appeared in a 1966 issue of Sepia. She claimed to be the first African-American trans woman to receive sex reassignment surgery.

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Historical photographs & visual records

Delivery man on motorcycle, Johannesburg (South Africa)

1979

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Cataloged as “Delivery man on motorcycle, Johannesburg (South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-065544
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Sports

Dell Demps

1970–

Delano Demps (born February 12, 1970) is an American professional basketball executive and former player who is a front office assistant for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He previously served as an assistant coach…

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Biography & Culture

Della Griffin

1922–2022

Della Griffin (June 12, 1922 – August 9, 2022), also known as Della Simpson, was an American jazz vocalist and drummer. She was a member of two of the first all female R&B groups in the 1950s, The Enchanters and The Dell-Tones.

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BIOGRAPHY
Literature

Della Reese

1931–2017

Della Reese (born Delloreese Patricia Early; July 6, 1931 – November 19, 2017) was an American singer, actress, television personality, author and ordained minister. As a singer, she recorded blues, gospel, jazz and pop. Several of her singles made the US…

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

Della Reese, 1979

ca. 1979

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A black-and-white photograph of vocalist Della Reese singing during a performance in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Reese is photographed from the right and is singinging into a microphone held in her right hand. She wears a dark dress with patterned sequins.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.164.110
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