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Eroding brickwork, Fort Dixcove, Ghana

1986

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Donor notes read: "Eroding brickwork, Dixcove Fort, Jan. 8, 1986. VanDantzig trip, Jan. 1986. The date on the slide is FEB 86.".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1993-028, Item EEPA.1993-028-0177
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Biography & Culture

Errin Haines

Biography

Errin Haines (formerly known as Errin Haines Whack) is an American journalist. She writes about politics, civil rights, voting rights, and race. She was the national writer on race for Associated Press from 2017-2020.

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Biography & Culture

Errol Barnett

1983–

Errol Barnett (born 3 April 1983) is a broadcaster on American television. The Emmy Award winner is an anchor and national correspondent for CBS News based in New York City. He currently anchors the CBS Morning News on CBS News 24/7.

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Visual Arts

Errol Francis

1956–

Errol Anthony Francis (born in Oracabessa, Jamaica, 1956) is an artist, former mental health campaigner, and current charity executive in the United Kingdom. He currently lives and works in London, England.

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Errol John

1924–1988

Errol John (20 December 1924 – 10 July 1988) was a Trinidad and Tobago actor and playwright who emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1951.

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Music

Errol Kennedy

1953–

Errol Kennedy (born 9 June 1953 in Montego Bay, Jamaica) is a Jamaican-British musician (drummer, singer), songwriter, composer, producer and original member of the British soul, funk and pop band Imagination.

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Errol Lloyd

1943–

Errol Lloyd (born 1943) is a Jamaican-born painter, sculptor, writer, art critic, editor and arts administrator. Since the 1960s he has been based in London, to which he originally travelled to study law. Now well known as a book illustrator, he was…

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Biography & Culture

Errol Louis

1962–

Errol T. Louis (born August 24, 1962) is an American journalist and television show host active in New York City.

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Errol McCalla Jr.

Biography

Errol McCalla Jr., also known as "Poppi", is an American songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work with Destiny's Child ("8 Days of Christmas"), Tamia ("Long Distance Love"), and Missy Elliott ("Pussycat"), among others. His…

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Erroll Garner

1921–1977

Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1921 – January 2, 1977) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His instrumental ballad "Misty", his best-known composition, has become a jazz standard. It was first recorded in 1956,…

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Erroll Grandy

1918–1991

Erroll Grandy (January 1, 1918 – June 12, 1996) was an American jazz pianist. Erroll Grandy was highly influential in the Indianapolis jazz scene. Earning him the nickname, "godfather of Indiana Avenue jazz" because his musical impact in the 1940s to the…

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Erroll Starr

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Erroll Starr Francis is a Canadian rhythm and blues singer. He is most noted for winning the Juno Award for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year in 1989 for his single "Angel".

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Music

Errollyn Wallen

1958–

Errollyn Wallen (born 10 April 1958) is a Belize-born British composer and musician, who moved as a child with her family to London, England. Wallen was appointed Master of the King's Music in 2024 by King Charles III, in his first appointment to the post.…

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Erskine Butterfield

1913–1961

Erskine Butterfield (February 9, 1913 – July 11, 1961) was an American pianist, singer, bandleader and composer, active in the 1930s to the 1950s, and best known for his boogie-woogie and swing piano style. Butterfield was credited with "helping to invent…

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Erskine Oglesby

1937–2004

Erskine Oglesby (January 20, 1937 – March 7, 2004) was an American tenor saxophonist and blues singer. He was a native of St. Louis and as a teenager he played in a local band with Chuck Berry. He later played with Little Milton, Albert King, and Ike…

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Visual Arts

"Eruption!" Original Comic Splash Page

1992

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A set of original comic book splash pages for pages 2 and 3 of Brotherman No. 5 illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile. The pages form one large image and are taped together by white adhesive tape on the back of the sheets of paper. The black and white drawing is…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.116.5.8
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Erykah Badu

1971–

Erica Abi Wright (born February 26, 1971), known professionally as Erykah Badu, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Influenced by R&B, soul, and hip-hop, Badu rose to prominence in the late 1990s when her debut studio album…

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Civil Rights

Erynn Chambers

1992–

Erynn Chambers, better known under her TikTok username rynnstar (born 1992), is an American social media content creator, activist, and teacher. She is best known for her work on TikTok. She is also credited as a co-author on the country song "Beer Beer,…

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Es'kia Mphahlele

1919–2008

Mphahlele’s memoir Down Second Avenue described growing up under apartheid, and decades in exile made him an influential mentor to African writers before his return home in 1977.

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Escape from Sodom + Gomorrah

1982

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A wood engraving depicting people running down a path while a city burns in background. In the center of the print are four figures, three female and one male, running down a path. On the left side of the print is a tree with buildings and smoke in the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.111.15
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Ese Orun holding opa offers prayers as women offer food sacrifices

1977

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Cataloged as “Ese Orun holding opa offers prayers as women offer food sacrifices” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2014-003, Item EEPA_2013-015-2942
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Esekhurhe, Emobo Ceremony, Nigeria

1981

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Cataloged as “Esekhurhe, Emobo Ceremony, Nigeria” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2016-012, Item EEPA 2016-012-1110
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Esekhurhe, Ewere Festival, Nigeria

1981

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Cataloged as “Esekhurhe, Ewere Festival, Nigeria” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2016-012, Item EEPA 2016-012-1210
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