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Eddie Karanja is an English actor. his television roles include a young Washington Black in Washington Black (2025), and Jed Walker in The Sandman (2022).
1989
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph of blues musician Eddie King, posing with two guitar cases in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. The photo shows King posing with two heavily decorated guitar cases, one resting on the ground and one slung over King's right shoulder. He wears…
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Edward F. Davis (March 2, 1922 – November 3, 1986), known professionally as Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. It is unclear how he acquired the moniker "Lockjaw" (later shortened to "Jaws"): it is either said that it came from…
ca. 1980
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph of jazz musician Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis with a saxaphone at a performance in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. He is bending slightly to adjust a microphone stand with his right hand. He wears striped light colored pants and a sweater.
1940
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGPhotograph of young man adjusting his vertical-striped necktie with his left hand, leaning his right shoulder against a wooden post. He wears a white button down shirt and raises his chin as he adjusts his tie.
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Edward Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American comedian, actor, and singer. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential Black artists in the entertainment industry, and one of the greatest comedians of all time. He had his breakthrough…
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Eddie Otchere is a British-Ghanaian photographer, cultural chronicler and educator based in South London, England. He is known for his portraiture and documentation of underground youth culture, leading musicians, rappers, vocalists and DJs, spanning from…
1919–2007
Eddie Gay Robinson Sr. (February 13, 1919 – April 3, 2007) was an American college football and basketball coach. For 56 years, from 1941 to 1942 and again from 1945 to 1997, he was the head coach at Grambling State University, a historically black…
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Edmund Lincoln Anderson (September 18, 1905 – February 28, 1977) was an American actor and comedian known for his gravelly voice. To a generation of early radio and television comedy audiences, he was known as "Rochester".
1960; printed 1995
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black and white silver gelatin photograph of a man holding the neck of a double bass. During a Count Basie Orchestra recording session in New York City, 1960, Eddie Jones is captured in the blurred background of a photograph focused on his hands, which…
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Edward Harrington (January 10, 1935 – June 1, 2018), better known by his stage name Eddy Clearwater, was an American blues musician who specialized in Chicago blues. Blues Revue said he plays "joyous rave-ups…he testifies with stunning soul fervor and…
1956–
Eddy L. Harris (born January 26, 1956) is an American writer of creative nonfiction and a filmmaker.
1973
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Ede at an Oteku Atsogwa Title ceremony, Afokpella, Nigeria” (Negatives (photographic)).
1973
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Ede, Oteku Atsogwa, Afokpella, Okpella, Etsako, Edo State, Nigeria” (Slides (photographs)).
1975–
Edem Awumey (born 1975 in Lomé, Togo) is a Togolese-Canadian writer. Born in Togo and educated in France, he has lived in Gatineau, Quebec since 2005. His debut novel Port-Mélo won the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 2006, and his second novel Les…
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Edgar Arceneaux (born 1972 in Los Angeles) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He is a drawing artist. He is the co-founder of the Watts House Project, a non-profit neighborhood redevelopment organization in Watts.
1924–1972
Edgar Vernon Blanchard (August 17, 1924 – September 16, 1972) was an American R&B guitarist, bandleader and arranger who was prominent in the musical life of New Orleans between the 1940s and 1960s. He was born in Grosse Tête, Louisiana, the son of…
2000-01-25
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGEdge of Lobi village. Original Carousel number, 7, slide number, 100.
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Edie Huggins (August 14, 1935 – July 29, 2008), born Edith "Eddie" Lou Thompson, was an American television reporter, journalist and broadcaster. In 1966, Huggins became one of the first female African-American television news reporters in Philadelphia.…
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Edison de Souza Carneiro (12 August 1912 – 2 December 1972) was a Brazilian writer, historian, folclorist and ethnologist who specialized in Afro-Brazilian culture. He was one of the most well-known Brazilian ethnologists during his time with his studies…
1886–1954
Edith Hester McDonald-Brown (December 17, 1886 – December 17, 1954) was an African-Canadian artist. She is thought to be the first documented Black female painter in Canadian art history.
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Edith Player Brown (December 14, 1907 – November 5, 1999), born Edith Amelia Player, was an American musician, artist, and arts educator in Akron, Ohio.
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Edmond Dédé (November 20, 1827 – January 5, 1901) was an American musician and composer. A free-born Creole, he moved to Europe in 1855. He worked in Bordeaux for more than forty years, first as assistant conductor at the Grand Théâtre and then as a…
1844–1870
Edmonia Highgate (June 21, 1844 – October 16, 1870), was an educator, writer, and activist for freed people in the post-Civil War Reconstruction era. Though born in Syracuse, New York, Highgate's work with the American Missionary Association brought her…
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