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Clothing - Costume

Denim suit jacket and bellbottoms with red embroidery worn by Charley Pride

1970s

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This denim jean jacket (a) and denim flared jeans (b), both with red embroidered decoration, were worn by Charley Pride. The jacket (a) is made from blue denim with an all-over embroidered grid design in red thread. It is straight cut with a straight…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.125.49ab
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Music

Deniro Farrar

1987–

Dante Qushawan Farrar (born June 18, 1987), better known by his stage name Deniro Farrar, is an American rapper from Charlotte, North Carolina. He has collaborated with other artists such as Ryan Hemsworth, Shady Blaze, and Flosstradamus. His voice was…

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Denis Simpson

1950–2010

Dennis Anthony Leopold Simpson (4 November 1950 – 22 October 2010) was a Canadian actor and singer best known as a host of the TV series Polka Dot Door. He was also an original member of the singing group The Nylons.

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Literature

Denise Ajayi-Williams

Biography

Denise Ajayi-Williams is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Silicon Valley-Nigerian Economic Development Inc. (SV-NED Inc.) Denise holds board positions at five organizations: SV-NED Inc., Global Connection for Women Foundation, Sky Clinic…

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Film & Television

Denise Boutte

Biography

Denise Boutte is an American actress. She made her film debut starring in the 2004 horror feature Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill and in 2007 appeared in the comedy-drama Why Did I Get Married?. On television, Boutte was a regular cast member on…

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Biography & Culture

Denise Chaila

Biography

Denise Mwaka Chaila is an Irish-Zambian rapper, singer, poet, grime and hip hop artist based in Limerick.

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Music

Denise Clark-Bradford

1953–

Denise Darchell "Niecy" Clark-Bradford (born Denise Darchell Clark; September 10, 1953) is an American Grammy Award-winning gospel singer. Clark–Bradford is best known as an original member of family vocal group The Clark Sisters and as a daughter of…

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Culture

Denise Ferreira da Silva

1963–

Denise Ferreira da Silva is a Brazilian philosopher with an anticolonial black feminist perspective that highlights the centrality of raciality in post-Enlightenment thought. She is an academic, a relational artist, and a visual and installation artist.…

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Biography & Culture

Denise George

1959–

Denise N. George, also known as Denise George-Counts, is a U.S. Virgin Islands lawyer and former television news reporter who served as the Attorney General of the United States Virgin Islands. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in radio, television,…

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Film & Television

Denise Gordy

Biography

Denise Georgette Gordy is an American former film and television actress and singer. She is a niece of Motown founder Berry Gordy and the mother of actress Bianca Lawson.

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Arts & Performance

Denise Jefferson

1944–2010

Denise Adele Jefferson (November 1, 1944 – July 17, 2010) was an American dance educator who served as the director of the Ailey School of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from 1984 until her death.

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Photographs and Still Images

Denise McNair’s Dress

2010; printed 2019

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A black-and-white photograph of Carol Denise McNair’s dress, by Platon. The child sized dress was owned by McNair, one of the four girls killed during the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama that took place on September 15, 1963.…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.33.18
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Biography & Culture

Denise Murrell

Biography

Denise Murrell is a curator at large for 19th- and 20th-century art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She is best known for her 2018 exhibition Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today, which explored how French…

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Music

Denise Narcisse-Mair

1940–2010

Denise Lorraine Narcisse-Mair (19 January 1940 – 8 June 2010) was a Canadian musicologist, music educator, choral conductor, and composer. Narcisse-Mair was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on January 19, 1940. Her mother was a pianist and her aunt was a…

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Denise Nurse

1967–

Denise Bernadette Nurse (born 8 July 1976) is a British entrepreneur, lawyer and television presenter.

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Photographs and Still Images

Denise Oliver at the Young Lords Church Takeover

December 28, 1969

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of Denise Oliver, a member of the New York Young Lords Organization, at the 1969 takeover of the First Spanish United Methodist Church in East Harlem. The image captures Oliver from the neck up. She…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.53.31
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Literature

Denise Ryner

Biography

Denise Ryner is a Canadian curator and writer. She was director and curator at Or Gallery, Vancouver (2017-2022). Ryner has worked as an independent curator, writer and educator at several galleries, artist-run centres and institutions, in Toronto,…

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Arts & Performance

Dennis Alaba Peters

1927–1996

Dennis Alaba Peters (1927–1996) was a Gambian actor who worked in the United Kingdom. He is known for his portrayal of Sir Curtis Seretse in the TV series Department S (1969–70).

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Dennis Binder

1928–

Dennis Binder (born November 18, 1928) is an American rhythm and blues musician and singer-songwriter, best known for his song "Long Man Blues". Binder began his careers in the 1950s, recording for prominent R&B labels, including Chess Records, Sun…

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Music

Dennis Bovell

1953–

Dennis Bovell (born 22 May 1953) is a Barbados-born reggae guitarist, bass player and record producer, based in the United Kingdom. He was a member of a progressive rock group called Stonehenge, who later changed name and became the British reggae band…

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Dennis Brockenborough

Biography

Dennis Brockenborough is an American musician who played trombone in The Mighty Mighty Bosstones for ten years and was an important contributor to the band's brass instrument-driven skacore sound. Brockenborough joined the Mighty Mighty Bosstones in 1990…

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Biography & Culture

Dennis Chin

1987–

Dennis Chin (born 4 June 1987) is a Jamaican former professional footballer who played as a forward, notably for Orlando City SC. He is currently the President of Global Soccer at Young Money APAA Sports, an agency led by rapper Lil' Wayne and Adie Von…

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Music

Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas

1951–2021

Dennis "Dee Tee" Ronald Thomas (February 9, 1951 – August 7, 2021) was an American alto saxophone player, flautist, and percussionist, who was a founding member of R&B/soul/funk band Kool & the Gang, and one of the few members to remain with the band for…

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Arts & Performance

Dennis Delgado

Biography

Dennis Delgado is a contemporary American artist and critic who examines how ideologies of colonialism persist and re-inscribe themselves within modern technology such as in facial recognition systems which fail to properly identify people of color. His…

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