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Kenneth Cooper Alexander (born October 17, 1966) is an American politician serving as mayor of Norfolk, Virginia, since July 2016. Alexander also serves as chancellor for twenty career colleges which includes: (i) Centura College; a healthcare, business,…
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Kenneth Anderson (born October 9, 1970) is an American former professional basketball player. After a college career at Georgia Tech, he played point guard professionally from 1991 to 2006, mostly in the National Basketball Association.
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Kenneth Carter (born December 2, 1967) is a former head football coach of Delaware State University, in Dover, Delaware. Carter was formally announced as the head coach of the Hornets on January 21, 2015, and succeeded Kermit Blount at the position.…
1991–
Kenny Guiton (born June 27, 1991) is an American college football coach and former professional quarterback. He is the quarterbacks coach for the University of Wisconsin–Madison, after coaching the wide receivers in 2024. He most recently was the interim…
1927–2003
Kenny Jackson Williams (September 4, 1927 – December 19, 2003) was an African American academic and author. She specialized in the study of Midwestern literature and African American literature.
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Kenneth Wayne Natt (born October 5, 1958) is an American former professional basketball player and ex-interim head coach for the National Basketball Association's Sacramento Kings. He was a 6'3" 185 lb (84 kg) guard and played collegiately at Northeast…
1959–2015
Kenny Phillips (1959 – October 23, 2015) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, North Carolina from 2002 to 2012, compiling a record of 75–63. Phillips led…
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Kenneth Smith (born March 8, 1965), nicknamed "the Jet", is an American sports commentator and former professional basketball player who played for six teams during his 10-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He won back-to-back NBA…
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Kenneth Stanley Washington (August 31, 1918 – June 24, 1971) was an American professional football player who was the first African-American to sign a contract with a National Football League (NFL) team in the modern (post-World War II) era. He played…
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Kenny Washington (born May 29, 1958) is an American jazz drummer and music writer born in Staten Island, New York. His brother is bassist Reggie Washington. He grew up in the Stapleton Houses and attended P.S. 14. He studied at The High School of Music &…
1946–
Kent Schoolfield (born September 3, 1946) is an American former college football player and coach. A wide receiver at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, he was selected by the New England Patriots in the 1970 NFL draft. Schoolfield served as the head…
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Kenvi Phillips is an American librarian serving as the inaugural director of the Barack Obama Presidential Library since June 16, 2024.
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Kenyon Farrow (born November 13, 1974) is an American writer, activist, director, and educator focused on progressive racial and economic justice issues related to the LGBTQ community. He served as the executive director of Queers for Economic Justice,…
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Keri Lynn Hilson (born December 5, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Born and raised in Decatur, Georgia, she began her musical career as a songwriter and backing vocalist for other artists under the wing of producer Anthony Dent in 2002.…
1958–
Kermit Blount (born May 16, 1958) is an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Winston-Salem State University from 1993 to 2009, Delaware State University from 2011 to 2014 and at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North…
1934–2018
Kermit James Lee Jr. (1934–2018) was an architect, artist, and professor emeritus at Syracuse University. He was the second black graduate from Syracuse's School of Architecture in 1957. (Wilson, Dreck Spurlock. African American Architects: A Biographical…
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Kerri K. Greenidge is an American historian and former academic. Her book Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter, a biography of civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter, won the 2020 Mark Lynton History Prize. In 2026 following…
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Kerrick Jackson is an American baseball coach and former pitcher, who is the current head baseball coach of the Missouri Tigers. He played college baseball at St. Louis Community College, Bethune–Cookman and Nebraska from 1994 to 1997. He then served as…
1974–
Kerry Cooks (born March 28, 1974) is an American college football coach and former player. He is the safeties coach for Rice University, a position he has held since 2025.
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Kerry G. Johnson is an American illustrator, cartoonist, caricaturist, art director and graphic designer. His work includes newspaper illustration, children’s books, educational publications, comics, and visual communication. He co-created the…
1955–
Kerry James Marshall (born October 17, 1955) is an American artist and professor, known for his paintings of Black figures. He previously taught painting at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2017, Marshall was…
1973–
Kerry Keith Robinson (born October 3, 1973) is an American former professional Major League Baseball player.
Biography
Kerwin Kofi Charles is the Indra K. Nooyi Dean & Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Economics, Policy, and Management at the Yale School of Management. In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and appointed Sir Arthur…
Biography
Keshia M. Pollack Porter is an American injury epidemiologist and policy researcher who specializes in health equity and promoting safe environments. She is the Dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she also holds a Bloomberg…
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