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K. Renee Horton is an American physicist and an Airworthiness Deputy at NASA. She was the first black person to receive a PhD in material science and engineering with a concentration in physics at the University of Alabama. She is an advocate for black…
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Muhammed-Kabeer Olarewaju Gbajabiamila Sr. ( kə-BEER BAH-jah BEE-ə-MIL-ə;; born September 24, 1977), nicknamed "KGB", is a Nigerian-American former professional football player who spent his entire nine-year career as a defensive end for the Green Bay…
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Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason HonFLSW (born 1965 or 1966) is a British memoirist and arts administrator. Originally an English lecturer at the University of Birmingham, she stepped down from her university job to raise her seven children, encouraging the…
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Kafui Dzirasa (born 1978) is an American psychiatrist and Associate Professor at Duke University. He looks to understand the relationship between neural circuit malfunction and mental illness. He was a 2019 AAAS Leshner Fellow and was elected Fellow of the…
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Kagiso Lesego Molope is an Indigenous South African Canadian novelist and playwright. Born and raised in South Africa, Kagiso Lesego Molope graduated from the University of Cape Town and moved to Canada at age 21. She obtained her master's degree in…
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Kahmari Montgomery (born August 16, 1997) is an American track and field sprinter specializing in the 400 m for Nike. He was the men's 400 m champion at the USA Championships in 2018, and at the NCAA Division I Championships in 2019. He represented the…
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Kai Carlo Cenat III ( KY sə-NAT; born December 16, 2001) is an American online streamer, YouTuber, and internet personality who specializes in comedic live streams and videos. As of 2026, he is the most-subscribed Twitch streamer in the world, as well as…
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Kaila Austin is an American interdisciplinary visual artist, public historian, and community activist in Indianapolis, Indiana. Austin's works has been featured in exhibitions and installations at Big Car Collaborative, BUTTER Fine Art Fair, and Herron…
1980–
Kaila Adia Story-Jackson (born January 9, 1980) is an American academic and podcaster. Story's academic work focuses on the intersections of gender, sexuality, and race.
1974
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Kalabari Masquerade at Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of University of Ibadan Celebration, Ibadan, Western State, Nigeria” (Slides (photographs)).
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Kalamu ya Salaam (born March 24, 1947) is an American poet, author, filmmaker, and teacher from the 9th Ward of New Orleans. A well-known activist and social critic, Salaam has spoken out on a number of racial and human rights issues. For years, he did…
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Kali Nicole Gross is an American historian. She is an African American Studies professor at Emory University. She is also a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians, and the 2019–2021 National Publications Director of the…
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Kalisha Buckhanon (born April 1, 1977) is an American author who writes frequently on literature, race and Black women's themes. She was educated at the University of Chicago and The New School. She is a 2006 recipient of the Alex Award.
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Kameron Darnel Chancellor (born April 3, 1988), nicknamed "Bam Bam Kam", is an American former professional football safety who spent his entire nine-year career with the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football…
1972–
Kamau Amu Patton (born in 1972) is a multidisciplinary American artist and educator. He makes works independently and as part of the performance collective founded by Terry Adkins, Lone Wolf Recital Corps. Patton is also an Associate Professor in the…
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Kamau Kenyatta (born June 27, 1955) is a Grammy Award-winning record producer. He is a musician, arranger, film composer, and educator. He is a Teaching Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
1985–
Kamela Teresa Gissendanner (born July 27, 1985) is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball for the NC State Wolfpack and…
1947–2011
James Kanati Allen (January 25, 1947 – December 31, 2011) was an American gymnast. He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and competed for the seventh-place U.S. team at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Allen, who is black…
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Kandis Leslie Gillard-Abdul Aziz is an American chemical and environmental engineer known for the development of technologies that turn agricultural waste into a filtration system for water. She worked as an assistant professor in the Chemical and…
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Kandy G. Lopez , also known as Kandy G. Lopez–Moreno (born July 10, 1987) is an American multidisciplinary and mixed media artist, and educator. She is known for her fiber art works, which focus on the representation of marginalized individuals to explore…
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Kanitra Fletcher is an American curator and art historian currently working as associate curator of African American and Afro-Diasporic art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Named to her role in January 2021 after serving as an associate…
ca. 1979
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA small printed poster on heavy paper with black and white photographic portraits of the founders of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. The portraits encircle the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity crest and the poster is framed with a red floral border. The text at…
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Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, printmaker, sculptor, installation artist, filmmaker, and university professor, who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work.…
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.; April 16, 1947) is an American former professional basketball player. He played as a center for 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers.…
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