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Dorian
1984–
Alton Dorian Clark (born August 2, 1984), known mononymously as Dorian, is an American rapper, producer, songwriter, and basketball coach from Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Arts & Performance
Dorian Corey
1937–1993
Dorian Corey (June 6, 1937 – August 29, 1993) was an American drag performer and fashion designer. She appeared in Wigstock and was featured in Jennie Livingston's 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning.
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Dorian Gregory
1971–
Dorian Gregory (born January 26, 1971) is an American actor and television host who played Darryl Morris on the television show Charmed (1998–2005) and was the fourth and final permanent host of Soul Train, replacing Shemar Moore.
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Dorian Missick
1976–
Dorian Crossmond Missick (born January 15, 1976) is an American actor known for his role as Damian Henry in the television series Six Degrees (2006–2007) and for voicing Victor Vance in the 2006 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. He is also…
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Music
Dorinda Clark-Cole
1957–
Dorinda Grace Clark-Cole (née Clark; October 19, 1957) is an American Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, songwriter, musician, talk show host, and evangelist. Clark–Cole is best known as a member of family vocal group The Clark Sisters and as a daughter…
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Doris Adelaide Derby Oral History Interview
April 26, 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of eight digital files: 2011.174.8.1a, 2011.174.8.1b, 2011.174.8.1c, 2011.174.8.1d, 2011.174.8.1e, 2011.174.8.1f, 2011.174.8.1g, and 2011.174.8.1h. Doris Derby discusses her childhood in the Bronx, joining a National Association…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.174.8.1a-h
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Literature
Doris Davenport
1949–
Doris Davenport, sometimes styled as doris davenport (January 29, 1949 – December 2, 2024), was an American writer, educator, and literary and performance poet. She wrote an essay featured in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color…
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Doris Derby
1939–2022
Doris Adelaide Derby (November 11, 1939 – March 28, 2022) was an American activist and documentary photographer. She was the adjunct associate professor of anthropology at Georgia State University and the founding director of their Office of…
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Education & Scholarship
Doris Evans McGinty
1925–2005
Doris Evans McGinty (February 8, 1925 – April 5, 2005) was a professor in the Department of Music at Howard University from 1947 until 1991. McGinty was chair of the department for eight years, and contributed to numerous publications, including the New…
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Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards
1976–
Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards (born January 16, 1976, in Englewood, California) is an American tap dancer, choreographer, and instructor who has been called "the mastress of her generation." In 1998, she married fellow dancer Omar Edwards and opened a studio…
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Historical photographs & visual records
Dormitory of social welfare building, Johannesburg (South Africa)
1947-1948
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Dormitory of social welfare building, Johannesburg (South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-064730
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Arts & Performance
Doron Bell
1973–
Doron Bell Jr. (born December 8, 1973, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian-born American actor, musician, and singer. He is known for his music, acting and voice work; he voiced the character Waldo in the Netflix animated series Dinotrux as well as many…
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Dorothy A. Atabong
Biography
Dorothy A. Atabong (née Ayinke Dorothy Atabong) is a Cameroonian-Canadian actress, writer, and producer. She is best known for Sound of Tears for which she has won various awards, including an Africa Movie Academy Award in 2015.
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Music
Dorothy Akerele
1913–2007
Dorothy "Aunty Dolly" Akerele, née Jackson (1913–2007) was a British-Nigerian musician, hostess and wife to the Nigerian surgeon Oni Akerele.
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Literature
Dorothy Ashby
1932–1986
Dorothy Jeanne Thompson (August 6, 1932 – April 13, 1986), better known as Dorothy Ashby, was an American jazz harpist, singer and composer. Hailed as one of the most "unjustly under loved jazz greats of the 1950s" and the "most accomplished modern jazz…
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Dorothy B. Porter
1905–1995
Dorothy Louise Porter Wesley (May 25, 1905 – December 17, 1995) was a librarian, bibliographer and curator, who built the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University into a world-class research collection. She was the first African American to…
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Dorothy Butler Gilliam
1936–
Dorothy Pearl Butler Gilliam (born November 24, 1936) is an American journalist who in 1961 was the first African-American female reporter at The Washington Post.
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Dorothy Dandridge
1922–1965
Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress and singer. She was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Carmen Jones (1954), a performance which also earned her a…
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Dorothy Dean
1932–1987
Dorothy Dean (December 22, 1932 – February 13, 1987) was an American writer, actress, and editor. She was associated with Pop artist Andy Warhol's Factory and the New York City's 1960s underground art scene. Although never a prolific published author…
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Music
Dorothy Donegan
1922–1998
Dorothy Donegan (April 6, 1922 – May 19, 1998) was an American classically trained jazz pianist and occasional vocalist, primarily known for performing stride and boogie-woogie, as well as bebop, swing, and classical.
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Dorothy Donegan, 1993
1993
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph of jazz pianist Dorothy Donegan performing at a concert in Charlotte, NC. Donegan is photographed from a low angle and to the right. She sits at a piano with her face turned slightly toward the camera with her right hand raised…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.164.82
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Visual Arts
Dorothy E. Hayes
1935–2015
Dorothy Earline Lorraine Hayes (December 1, 1935 – July 31, 2015) was an American graphic designer, sculptor, and educator. She was an early Black graphic designer and the owner of the commercial design studio, "Dorothy's Door" in New York City. She taught…
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Dorothy Koomson
1971–
Dorothy Koomson (born 1971 in London) is a contemporary British novelist of Ghanaian descent. She has been described as "Britain's biggest selling black author of adult fiction".
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Dorothy LaBostrie
1928–2007
Dorothy LaBostrie (May 28, 1928 – November 4, 2007), later Dorothy LaBostrie Black, was an American songwriter, best known for co-writing Little Richard's 1955 hit "Tutti Frutti".
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