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Kobena Mercer (born 1960) is a British art historian and writer on contemporary art and visual culture.
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Kodi Burns (born December 24, 1988) is an American football coach who is currently an assistant coach for Auburn Tigers football. He was previously the wide receivers coach at the University of Tennessee, University of South Florida, and at Auburn…
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Kodwo Eshun (born 1967) is a British-Ghanaian writer, theorist and filmmaker. He is perhaps best known for his 1998 book More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction and his association with the art collective The Otolith Group, which he…
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Kori Carter (born June 3, 1992) is an American track and field athlete specializing in hurdle races, the World Champion in the 400 metres hurdles event in 2017. Kori Carter was a nine-time All-American at Stanford University sponsored by Jordan Brand.
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Koritha Mitchell is a professor of African American literature at Boston University. She previously taught at the Ohio State University, and obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. In 2011, University of Illinois Press published her book on a…
1981–
Kortney Ryan Ziegler (born December 15, 1981) is an American entrepreneur, filmmaker, visual artist, blogger, writer, and scholar based in Oakland, California. His artistic and academic work focuses on queer or trans issues, body image, racialized…
1970–
Krishna Lynne Foster (born January 7, 1970) is an American environmental chemist who is a professor at California State University, Los Angeles. Her research considers the impact of sunlight on pollutants. Foster has worked to improve the representation of…
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Kristala Jones Prather is an American professor of chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research is focused on using novel bioprocesses to design recombinant microorganisms to produce small molecules.
1980–
Kristee Porter (born May 7, 1980) is an American volleyball player and coach. She participated at the 2002 FIVB World Grand Prix. Porter is the head coach of the North Texas Mean Green volleyball team, which is a member of the American Athletic Conference.…
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Kristen M. Clarke (born 1975) is an American attorney who served as the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division at the United States Department of Justice from 2021 to 2025. Clarke previously served as president of the Lawyers' Committee…
1986–
Kristiana Rae Colón (born April 16, 1986) is an American poet, playwright, actor, educator, Cave Canem Fellow, creator of #BlackSexMatters and co-founder of the #LetUsBreathe Collective. She was awarded 2017 Best Black Playwright by The Black Mall. Her…
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Kristin Henning is a professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she is the Blume Professor of Law and the director of the university's Juvenile Justice Clinic. She is best known for her work in juvenile defense and for her book, The…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA color photograph of KRS-One performing at Columbia University. KRS-One is pictured standing on stage on the right side of the image, facing towards the audience. He wears a New York Yankees jersey under a white jacket with red, yellow, and green stripes…
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Kudakwashe Rutendo is a Canadian actress, most noted for her starring role as Amanda in the 2023 film Backspot. Born in Calgary, Alberta, and raised in Fort McMurray, she attended the University of Toronto, studying English, philosophy and classics while…
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Kumar Rocker (born November 22, 1999) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Rocker played college baseball for the Vanderbilt Commodores. He was selected with the 10th pick in the 2021 MLB draft…
1959–
Kumiki Gibson is a lawyer, originally from Buffalo, New York. She was named Counsel to the Governor of New York State by Governor Andrew Cuomo on September 3, 2019. She was previously the Chief Counsel to 45th Vice President of the United States Al Gore…
1969–
Kurt Barber (born January 5, 1969) is an American former football player and coach. He played professionally as was a linebacker for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). Barber played college football for the USC Trojans. He became a…
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J. Kurt Barling (born November 1961) is a British professor of journalism at Middlesex University. He previously worked as a journalist for the BBC for 25 years and before that as a lecturer at the London School of Economics. In 1997, he won the CRE's…
1964–
Kwabena Adu Boahen (born 22 September 1964) (not to be confused with Kwabena Adu-Boahene, former Director of the National Signals Bureau in Ghana, who is no relation) is a Ghanaian-born Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering at Stanford…
1949–
Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong (born July 24, 1949) is a Ghanaian American economist who is a professor of economics and economics department chair at the University of South Florida, and a former president of the National Economic Association. He serves on the…
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Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah ( AP-ee-ah; born 8 May 1954) is a Ghanaian-English-American philosopher and writer who has written about political philosophy, ethics, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Appiah is…
1967–
Kwame Amankwa Kwaten (born 13 May 1967) is a British manager, music consultant, musician and record producer. He owns an artist management and consultancy company called Ferocious Talent and is a co-founder of Cre8ing Vision, a non-profit company that…
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Kwame Julius McKenzie is a British-Canadian psychiatrist employed as the CEO of Wellesley Institute, a policy think tank based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. McKenzie is a full professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He has…
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Kwasi Konadu is a Jamaican scholar, educator, writer, editor, and historian. He is the author of several books, among them The Akan Diaspora in the Americas (2010), The Ghana Reader: History, Culture, Politics (with Clifford C. Campbell, 2016), Our Own Way…
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