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1971–
Keith Beauchamp (born 1971) is an American filmmaker based in Brooklyn and best known for his extensive investigation of and films about the lynching of Emmett Till. Beauchamp was born in 1971 and grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He attended Southern…
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Keith Allen Gill is an American college sports administrator who serves as the commissioner of the Sun Belt Conference, a collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Gill is also the first African-American to serve as a commissioner an NCAA…
1968–
Keith Lorenzo Goganious (born December 7, 1968) is an American former football player and coach. He played professionally as a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for five seasons with the Buffalo Bills, Jacksonville Jaguars and Baltimore…
1953–2013
Keith H. Jackson was an American physicist, a professor of physics, and former president of the National Society of Black Physicists.
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Keith L. Brown (born August 13, 1983) is an American jazz pianist, educator, and composer. He is the regular pianist for Grammy nominated saxophonist Kenny Garrett, and has released three albums on Space Time Records.
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Keith Maddox is a professor in the department of psychology at Tufts University. Maddox's research focuses on social cognition, and he is the director of the Tufts University Social Cognition Lab.
1960–
Keith Piper (born 1960) is a British artist, curator, critic and academic. He was a founder member of the groundbreaking BLK Art Group, an association of black British art students, mostly based in the West Midlands region of the UK.
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Keith Richburg is an American journalist and former foreign correspondent who spent more than 30 years working for The Washington Post. Currently serving as the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, he was the director of the Journalism…
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Keith Rucker V (born November 20, 1968) is an American football coach and former professional player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He is the defensive coordinator for the University of Rio Grande, a position he has held…
1956–
Keith Russell is an American ornithologist, birder, science communicator, and conservationist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a leading advocate of bird-safe glass and other methods for reducing mortality of migrating songbirds in urban…
early 1980s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black and white photograph of Keith Shocklee DJing at Hofstra University. Shocklee is pictured in the center of the image, standing behind a wooden DJ Booth. He wears headphones over his ears, several necklaces and a dark colored t-shirt with a graphic…
1953–
Keith Lavaughn Smith (born May 3, 1953) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers in 1977 and the St. Louis Cardinals from 1979 to 1980. His minor league career spanned from 1972…
Biography
Keith Waithe is a Guyana-born musician, composer and teacher who has been based in the United Kingdom since 1977. He is best known as a flautist and founder of the Macusi Players – a world music jazz band whose name derives from the indigenous Guyanese…
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Kelenna Azubuike (born 16 December 1983) is a Nigerian-American former professional basketball player and currently the Golden State Warriors television analyst on NBC Sports Bay Area. Born in London to Nigerian parents, Azubuike moved to the United States…
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Kelis Rogers (; born August 21, 1979) is an American singer. She attended Manhattan's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where she played saxophone and was selected for the Girls Choir of Harlem. Upon graduation, Rogers…
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Kéllé Bryan (born 12 March 1975) is an English singer and actress, known as one of the founding members of girl group Eternal. The group sold more than 10 million records and achieved the UK number-one single "I Wanna Be the Only One" alongside BeBe…
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Kellen Boswell Winslow Sr. (born November 5, 1957) is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). A member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (1995), he is widely recognized as one of the…
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Kellie Carter Jackson is an American academic scholar, author and broadcaster researching history of slavery, abolitionists, violence and black women’s history.
1959–
Kellie Jones (born 1959) is an American art historian and curator. She is a professor in art history and archaeology at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University. She won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016.
1942–2000
Kellis Earl Parker (January 13, 1942 – October 10, 2000) was an American legal scholar and teacher, including as the first African-American professor at Columbia Law School, civil rights activist, and jazz trombonist.
1957–
Kelly Delaine Brown Douglas (born 1957) is an African-American Episcopal priest, womanist theologian, and former interim president of Episcopal Divinity School. She was previously the inaugural Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological…
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Kelly Lytle Hernández is an American academic and historian. Lytle Hernández is a tenured professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she holds The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed…
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Kelly Jeromy Willie (born September 7, 1982) is an American former track and field athlete who specialized in the 400-meter dash. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, he attended Sterling High School and competed in track while there. Willie attended…
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Kelsey Koelzer (born June 16, 1995) is an American ice hockey defender, currently serving as head coach of the Arcadia University women's ice hockey program, the first black female head coach in NCAA ice hockey history, as well as the Advisor to the…
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