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Aarón Sanchez
Aarón Sánchez (born February 12, 1976) is an American chef and television personality.
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Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
Yasir Qadhi (also spelled Yasir Kazi) is an American Muslim scholar and writer of Pakistani descent.
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Adrian Grenier
Adrian Grenier (born July 10, 1976) is an American actor, producer, director, musician and environmentalist.
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African American Lives
African American Lives is a PBS television miniseries hosted by historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr., focusing on African-American genealogical research.
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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Alan Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer and academic.
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American Jews
American Jews, or Jewish Americans, are Americans who are Jews, whether by religion, ethnicity or nationality.
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Amy Schumer
Amy Beth Schumer (born June 1, 1981) is an American stand-up comedian and actress.
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Ana Navarro
Ana Violeta Navarro Flores (born December 28, 1971) is a Nicaraguan-born American Republican strategist and political commentator for various news outlets, including CNN, CNN en Español, ABC News, Telemundo, and The View.
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Ancestors in the Attic
Ancestors in the Attic is a Canadian television program about genealogy presented by Reader’s Digest Canada and shown on History Television in Canada.
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Anderson Cooper
Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is an American journalist, television personality, and author.
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Angela Bassett
Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress and activist.
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Angela Warnick Buchdahl
Angela Warnick Buchdahl (born Angela Lee Warnick on 8 July 1972) is an American rabbi.
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Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950) is an American actress, playwright, and professor.
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Asian Americans
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent.
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Ava DuVernay
Ava Marie DuVernay (born August 24, 1972) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, film marketer, and film distributor.
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Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafisi (آذر نفیسی; born 1948) is an Iranian writer and professor of English literature.
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Aziz Ansari
Aziz Ismail Ansari (born February 23, 1983) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, and comedian.
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Barbara Walters
Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American broadcast journalist, author, and television personality.
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Ben Affleck
Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor and filmmaker.
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Benjamin Jealous
Benjamin Todd Jealous (born January 18, 1973) is an American civic leader and Democratic nominee for Governor of Maryland in the 2018 gubernatorial election.
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Bernie Sanders
Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007.
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Bill Hader
William Thomas Hader Jr. (born June 7, 1978) is an American comedian, actor, voice actor, producer, and writer.
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Bill Maher
William Maher (born January 20, 1956) is an American comedian, political commentator, and television host.
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Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)
William James O'Reilly Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American journalist, author, and former television host.
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Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King (née Moffitt; born November 22, 1943) is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player.
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis (born August 26, 1960) is an American saxophonist, composer and bandleader.
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British Americans
British Americans usually refers to Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in the United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland).
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Bryant Gumbel
Bryant Charles Gumbel (born September 29, 1948) is an American television journalist and sportscaster, best known for his 15 years as co-host of NBC's Today.
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Carly Simon
Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and children's author.
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Carmelo Anthony
Carmelo Kyam Anthony (born May 29, 1984) is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Carole King
Carole King (born Carol Joan Klein, February 9, 1942) is an American composer and singer-songwriter.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Charlayne Hunter-Gault (born February 27, 1942) is an American journalist and former foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, and the Public Broadcasting Service.
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Chestnut Ridge people
The Chestnut Ridge people (CRP) are a mixed-race (or tri-racial isolate) community residing just northeast of Philippi, Barbour County in north-central West Virginia, USA.
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Chinese Americans
Chinese Americans, which includes American-born Chinese, are Americans who have full or partial Chinese ancestry.
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Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken on March 31, 1943) is an American actor of screen and stage who has appeared in more than 100 films and television shows, including Annie Hall (1977), The Deer Hunter (1978), The Dogs of War (1980), The Dead Zone (1983), A View to a Kill (1985), Batman Returns (1992), True Romance (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), Antz (1998), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Hairspray (2007), Seven Psychopaths (2012), the first three Prophecy films, The Jungle Book (2016), as well as music videos by many popular recording artists.
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Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is an American political scientist and diplomat.
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Cory Booker
Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is an American politician currently serving as the junior United States Senator from New Jersey, in office since 2013.
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Courtney B. Vance
Courtney Bernard Vance (born March 12, 1960) is an American actor.
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Dan Abrams
Dan Abrams (born c. 1965/1966) is an American web entrepreneur and television presenter who serves as the chief legal affairs anchor for ABC News and as the host of Live PD on the A&E cable network.
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David Sedaris
David Raymond Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor.
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Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra (born October 22, 1946) is an Indian-born American author, public speaker, alternative medicine advocate, and a prominent figure in the New Age movement.
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Derek Jeter
Derek Sanderson Jeter (born June 26, 1974) is an American former professional baseball shortstop, current businessman and baseball executive who is the chief executive officer (CEO) and part owner of the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball (MLB).
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Deval Patrick
Deval Laurdine Patrick (born July 31, 1956) is an American politician, civil rights lawyer, author and businessman who served as the 71st Governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015.
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DNA profiling
DNA profiling (also called DNA fingerprinting, DNA testing, or DNA typing) is the process of determining an individual's DNA characteristics, which are as unique as fingerprints.
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Documentary film
A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.
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Donna Brazile
Donna Lease Brazile (born December 15, 1959) is an American political strategist, campaign manager, political analyst, and author.
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Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and director, with a career in film, television, and theater since 1960.
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Dutch Americans
Dutch Americans are Americans of Dutch descent whose ancestors came from the Netherlands in the recent or distant past.
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Dyllan McGee
Dyllan McGee is a documentary filmmaker and founder of.
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Ethnic groups in Europe
The Indigenous peoples of Europe are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various indigenous groups that reside in the nations of Europe.
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Faces of America
Faces of America is a four-part Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Public television television series hosted by Professor Henry Louis Gates.
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Fleischer Studios
Fleischer Studios was an American corporation which originated as an animation studio located at 1600 Broadway, New York City, New York.
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Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry,, FAIA (born Frank Owen Goldberg)Reinhart, Anthony (July 28, 2010), Globe and Mail is a Canadian-born American architect, residing in Los Angeles.
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Fred Armisen
Fereydun Robert "Fred" Armisen (born December 4, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician.
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Free Negro
In United States history, a free Negro or free black was the legal status, in the geographic area of the United States, of blacks who were not slaves.
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Gaby Hoffmann
Gabrielle Mary Hoffmann (born January 8, 1982) is an American film and television actress best known for her roles on Sleepless in Seattle, Transparent and Girls, which garnered her nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2015, respectively.
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Garrison Keillor
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality.
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Genealogy
Genealogy (from γενεαλογία from γενεά, "generation" and λόγος, "knowledge"), also known as family history, is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history.
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Geoffrey Canada
Geoffrey Canada (born January 13, 1952) is an American educator, social activist and author.
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George Stephanopoulos
George Robert Stephanopoulos (born February 10, 1961) is an American journalist, political commentator and former Democratic advisor.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.
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Gloria Reuben
Gloria Elizabeth Reuben (born June 9, 1964) is a Canadian producer, singer and actress of film and television, known for her role as Jeanie Boulet on the medical drama ER and Marina Peralta on Falling Skies.
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Gloria Steinem
Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Greek Americans
Greek Americans (Ελληνοαμερικανοί, Ellinoamerikanoi) are Americans of full or partial Greek ancestry.
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Harry Connick Jr.
Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr. (born September 11, 1967) is an American singer, composer, actor, and television host.
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
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Hispanic
The term Hispanic (hispano or hispánico) broadly refers to the people, nations, and cultures that have a historical link to Spain.
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Immigration
Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker.
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Indian Americans
Indian Americans or Indo-Americans are Americans whose ancestry belongs to any of the many ethnic groups of the Republic of India.
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Irish Americans
Irish Americans (Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are an ethnic group comprising Americans who have full or partial ancestry from Ireland, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics.
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Italian Americans
Italian Americans (italoamericani or italo-americani) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans who have ancestry from Italy.
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Janet Mock
Janet Mock (born March 10, 1983) is an American writer, TV host, and transgender rights activist.
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Jessica Alba
Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American actress and businesswoman.
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Jimmy Kimmel
James Christian Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer.
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John Legend
John Roger Stephens (born December 28, 1978), known professionally as John Legend, is an American singer, songwriter and actor.
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John Lewis (civil rights leader)
John Robert Lewis (born February 21, 1940) is an American politician and is a prominent civil rights leader.
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John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Arizona, a seat he was first elected to in 1986.
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John Turturro
John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an Italian-American character actor, writer and filmmaker known for his roles in the films Do the Right Thing (1989), Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Quiz Show (1994), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and four entries in the ''Transformers'' film series, most recently ''The Last Knight'' (2017).
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Julianna Margulies
Julianna Luisa Margulies (born June 8, 1966) is an American actress and producer.
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Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith; December 3, 1960) is an American actress, prolific in films since the early 1990s.
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Kara Walker
Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, and film-maker who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work.
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Keenen Ivory Wayans
Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans, Sr. (born June 8, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and a member of the Wayans Family of entertainers.
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Ken Burns
Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentary films.
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Kevin Bacon
Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor and musician.
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Khandi Alexander
Khandi Alexander (born September 4, 1957) is an American dancer, choreographer, and actress.
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Kyra Sedgwick
Kyra Minturn Sedgwick Bacon (born August 19, 1965) is an American actress and producer.
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Larry David
Lawrence Gene David (born July 2, 1947) is an American comedian, writer, actor, playwright, and television producer.
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Latin America
Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.
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Legacy.com
Legacy.com is a website founded in 1998, the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials.
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Lidia Bastianich
Lidia Giuliana Matticchio Bastianich (born February 21, 1947) is an American celebrity chef, television host, author, and restaurateur.
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Light skin
Light skin is a naturally occurring human skin color, which has little eumelanin pigmentation and which has been adapted to environments of low UV radiation.
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Linda Chavez
Linda Lou ChavezStated on Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., May 20, 2012, PBS (born June 17, 1947) is an American author, commentator, and radio talk show host.
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List of ethnic groups of Africa
The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each population generally having its own language (or dialect of a language) and culture.
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List of mayors of Newark, New Jersey
The Mayor of the City of Newark is the head of the executive branch of government of Newark, New Jersey, United States.
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LL Cool J
James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968), known professionally as LL Cool J (short for Ladies Love Cool James), is an American rapper, actor, author and entrepreneur from Queens, New York.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Lupita Nyong'o
Lupita Amondi Nyong'o (born March 1, 1983) is a Kenyan-Mexican actress. The daughter of Kenyan politician Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, she was born in Mexico City where her father was teaching and was raised in Kenya from the age of one. She attended college in the United States, earning a bachelor's degree in film and theater studies from Hampshire College. Nyong'o began her career in Hollywood as a production assistant. In 2008, she made her acting debut with the short film East River and subsequently returned to Kenya to star in the television series Shuga (2009–2012). Also in 2009, she wrote, produced and directed the documentary In My Genes. She then pursued a master's degree in acting from the Yale School of Drama. Soon after her graduation, she had her first feature film role as Patsey in Steve McQueen's historical drama 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which she received critical acclaim and won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She became the first Kenyan and Mexican actress to win an Academy Award. Nyong'o made her Broadway debut as a teenage orphan in the critically acclaimed play Eclipsed (2015), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Following a motion capture role as Maz Kanata in the ''Star Wars'' sequel trilogy, Nyong'o starred as Nakia in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Black Panther (2018). In addition to acting, Nyong'o supports historic preservation. She is vocal about preventing sexual harassment and working for animal rights. In 2014, she was named the most beautiful woman by People. Nyong'o is a 2019 Hollywood Walk of Fame honoree.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
Margaret Ruth Gyllenhaal (born November 16, 1977) is an American actress.
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Margaret Cho
Margaret Moran Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, fashion designer, author, and singer-songwriter.
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Martha Stewart
Martha Helen Stewart (née Kostyra; born August 3, 1941) is an American businesswoman, writer, and television personality.
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Mary Steenburgen
Mary Nell Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an American actress and occasional singer.
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Maya Lin
Maya Ying Lin (born October 5, 1959) is an American designer, architect and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and land art.
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Maya Rudolph
Maya Khabira Rudolph Gale Biography In Context.
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Mediaite
Mediaite is a news and opinion site covering politics and entertainment in the media industry.
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Member of Congress
A Member of Congress (MOC) is a person who has been appointed or elected and inducted into an official body called a congress, typically to represent a particular constituency in a legislature.
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Mia Farrow
María de Lourdes "Mia" Villiers Farrow (born February 9, 1945) is an American actress, activist, and former fashion model.
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Michael Bacon (musician)
Michael Bacon (born December 22, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and film score composer.
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Michelle Rodriguez
Mayte Michelle Rodriguez (born July 12, 1978) is an American actress.
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Ming Tsai
Ming Tsai (born March 29, 1964) is an American restaurateur, television personality, and celebrity chef.
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Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA or mDNA) is the DNA located in mitochondria, cellular organelles within eukaryotic cells that convert chemical energy from food into a form that cells can use, adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Nas
Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones (born September 14, 1973), better known by his stage name Nas, is an American rapper, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.
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Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973) is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian, magician, and singer.
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New Orleans
New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Norman Lear
Norman Milton Lear (born July 27, 1922) is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Maude.
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Offspring
In biology, offspring are the young born of living organisms, produced either by a single organism or, in the case of sexual reproduction, two organisms.
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Patricia Arquette
Patricia Arquette (born April 8, 1968) is an Academy Award winning American actress.
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Paul Rudd
Paul Stephen Rudd (born April 6, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.
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Peter Kunhardt
Peter W. Kunhardt is a six time Emmy Award winning documentary film-maker who produces shows for HBO, PBS, and other U.S. television networks.
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Phil McGraw
Phillip Calvin McGraw (born September 1, 1950), known as Dr.
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Prometheus Global Media
Prometheus Global Media was a New York City-based B2B media company.
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Questlove
Ahmir Khalib Thompson (born January 20, 1971), known professionally as Questlove (stylized as ?uestlove), is an American percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, music journalist, record producer, and occasional actor.
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Rebecca Lobo
Rebecca Rose Lobo-Rushin (born October 6, 1973) is an American television basketball analyst and former women's basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997 to 2003.
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Richard Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate, investor and philanthropist.
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Rick Warren
Richard Duane "Rick" Warren (born January 28, 1954) is an American evangelical Christian pastor and author.
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Robert Downey Jr.
Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor and singer.
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Robert Downey Sr.
Robert John Downey Sr. (born Robert Elias Jr.; June 24, 1936) is an American filmmaker.
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Ruth Simmons
Ruth Simmons (born Ruth Jean Stubblefield; July 3, 1945) is the current President of Prairie View A&M University.
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Sally Field
Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress and director.
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Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor and film producer.
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Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is a Mexican-American writer.
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Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta (born October 23, 1969) is an American neurosurgeon and medical reporter.
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Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Ingrid Johansson (born November 22, 1984) is an American actress and singer.
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Sean Combs
Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969), also known by his stage names Puff Daddy, Puffy, P. Diddy, Diddy, Love and Brother Love is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur.
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Shonda Rhimes
Shonda Lynn Rhimes (born January 13, 1970) is an American television producer, screenwriter, and author.
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Soledad O'Brien
María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien (born September 19, 1966) is an American broadcast journalist and executive producer.
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Sons of the American Revolution
The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR or NSSAR) is an American congressionally chartered organization, founded in 1889, and headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.
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Sting (musician)
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English singer, songwriter, and actor.
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Surname
A surname, family name, or last name is the portion of a personal name that indicates a person's family (or tribe or community, depending on the culture).
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Suzanne Malveaux
Suzanne Maria Malveaux (born December 4, 1966) is an American television news journalist.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates (born September 30, 1975) is an American author, journalist, comic book writer, and educator.
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Téa Leoni
Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni (born February 25, 1966), better known by her stage name Téa Leoni, is an American actress and producer.
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Ted Danson
Edward Bridge "Ted" Danson III (born December 29, 1947) is an American actor and producer who played the lead character Sam Malone on the NBC sitcom Cheers, Jack Holden in the films Three Men and a Baby and Three Men and a Little Lady, and Dr.
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Telegraph Media Group
The Telegraph Media Group (TMG, previously the Telegraph Group) is the proprietor of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.
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Television documentary
Documentary television is a genre of television programming that broadcasts documentaries.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is a multi-platform American digital and print magazine founded in 1930 and focusing on the Hollywood film industry, television, and entertainment industries, as well as Hollywood's intersection with fashion, finance, law, technology, lifestyle, and politics.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The New York Times Company
The New York Times Company is an American media company which publishes its namesake, The New York Times.
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Tina Fey
Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey (born May 18, 1970) is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer and playwright.
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Tom Colicchio
Thomas Patrick "Tom" Colicchio (born August 15, 1962) is an American celebrity chef.
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Tony Kushner
Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American playwright and screenwriter.
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Ty Burrell
Tyler Gerald Burrell (born August 22, 1967) is an American actor and comedian.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Valerie Jarrett
Valerie June Jarrett (née Bowman; born November 14, 1956) is an American businesswoman and former government official.
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Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes (born March 7, 1964) is an American actress, comedian, and writer.
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Who Do You Think You Are? (U.S. TV series)
Who Do You Think You Are? is an American genealogy documentary series that is an adaptation of the British BBC series of the same name.
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William H. Macy
William Hall Macy Jr. (born March 13, 1950) is an American actor.
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WNET
WNET, channel 13 (branded as THIRTEEN), is a non-commercial educational, public television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey and serving the New York metropolitan area.
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Y chromosome
The Y chromosome is one of two sex chromosomes (allosomes) in mammals, including humans, and many other animals.
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