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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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Africatown
Africatown, also known as AfricaTown USA and Plateau, is a historic community located three miles (5 km) north of downtown Mobile, Alabama.
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Alexis Arquette
Alexis Arquette (July 28, 1969 – September 11, 2016) was an American actress, cabaret performer, underground cartoonist, and activist.
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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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Amy Sedaris
Amy Louise Sedaris (born March 29, 1961) is an American actress, voice actress, comedienne and writer known for playing Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central television series Strangers with Candy.
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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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Andrea Heinemann Simon
Andrea Heinemann Simon (March 24, 1909 – February 15, 1994) was an American community leader and the mother of singer Carly Simon.
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Anthony Herrera
Anthony John Herrera (January 19, 1944 – June 21, 2011) was an American actor.
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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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Barbara T. Bowman
Barbara Taylor Bowman (born October 30, 1928) is an American early childhood education expert/advocate, professor, and author.
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Ben Affleck
Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor and filmmaker.
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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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Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis (born August 26, 1960) is an American saxophonist, composer and bandleader.
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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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Casey Affleck
Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt (born August 12, 1975) is an American actor and director.
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CeCe Moore
CeCe Moore (born 1969) is a genetic genealogist who has appeared on TV shows such as Finding Your Roots, 20/20, The Doctors, The Dr. Oz Show and CBS This Morning and is the genetic genealogy consultant for Finding Your Roots and Genealogy Roadshow.
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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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Cliff Arquette
Clifford Charles Arquette (December 27, 1905 – September 23, 1974) was an American actor and comedian, famous for his television role of Charley Weaver.
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Clotilda (slave ship)
The schooner Clotilda (often misspelled Clotilde) was the last known U.S. slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States, arriving at Mobile Bay in autumn 1859 or July 9, 1860, with 110-160 slaves.
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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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D. Brenton Simons
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Dahomey
The Kingdom of Dahomey was an African kingdom (located within the area of the present-day country of Benin) that existed from about 1600 until 1894, when the last king, Béhanzin, was defeated by the French, and the country was annexed into the French colonial empire.
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Damon Wayans
Damon Kyle Wayans Sr. (born September 4, 1960) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and producer, and member of the Wayans family of entertainers.
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David Arquette
David Arquette (born September 8, 1971) is an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, fashion designer, and professional wrestler.
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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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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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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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Dwayne Wayans
Dwayne Kim Wayans (born July 20, 1956) is an American writer and film score composer.
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Dyllan McGee
Dyllan McGee is a documentary filmmaker and founder of.
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Eve Branson
Evette Huntley Branson (née Flindt; born 12 July 1923) is a British philanthropist, child welfare advocate, and the mother of Richard Branson.
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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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Fifth Ward, Houston
The Fifth Ward is a historical political district (ward) and a community of Houston, Texas, United States, Retrieved on June 25, 2009.
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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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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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Genealogy Roadshow (U.S. TV series)
Genealogy Roadshow is an American genealogy documentary series that debuted on PBS on September 23, 2013.
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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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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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Haplogroup Q-M3
Haplogroup Q-M3 (Y-DNA) is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup.
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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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James E. Bowman
James Edward Bowman Jr. (February 5, 1923 – September 28, 2011) was an American physician and specialist in pathology, hematology, and genetics.
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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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Jewish emancipation
Jewish emancipation was the external (and internal) process in various nations in Europe of eliminating Jewish disabilities, e.g. Jewish quotas, to which Jewish people were then subject, and the recognition of Jews as entitled to equality and citizenship rights on a communal, not merely individual, basis.
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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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Joanna Simon (mezzo-soprano)
Joanna Simon (born October 20, 1940) is an American mezzo-soprano and currently a Manhattan-based real estate broker.
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John Henry Lewis
John Henry Lewis (May 1, 1914 – April 18, 1974) was a hall of fame American boxer and held the World Light Heavyweight Boxing Title from 1935 to 1938.
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John Hewson (artist)
John Hewson (1744 – 1821) was a textile artist.
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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 S. McCain Sr.
John Sidney "Slew" McCain Sr. (August 9, 1884 – September 6, 1945) was a U.S. Navy admiral.
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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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JRI-Poland
JRI-Poland, also known as Jewish Records Indexing-Poland, is an online resource for Jewish genealogists searching for Jewish vital records for the current and former territories of Poland.
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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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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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Kim Wayans
Kim N. Wayans (born October 16, 1961) is an American actress, comedian, producer, writer and director.
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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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Levite
A Levite or Levi is a Jewish male whose descent is traced by tradition to Levi.
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Lewis Arquette
Lewis Michael Arquette (December 14, 1935 – February 10, 2001) was an American film actor, writer and producer.
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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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Lin (surname)
Lin is the Mandarin romanization of the Chinese surname written 林 in Chinese character.
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List of The Daily Show episodes (2017)
This is a list of episodes for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah in 2017.
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List of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore episodes (2015)
This is a list of episodes of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore hosted by Larry Wilmore from 2015.
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Lizzie Lape
Lizzie Lape (August 15, 1853 – sometime after Thanksgiving 1917) was a mid-Ohio madam who owned and operated multiple bordellos at the end of the 19th century and early into the 20th.
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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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Lucy Simon
Lucy Simon (born 1943) is an American composer for the theatre and popular songs.
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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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Marlon Wayans
Marlon Lamont Wayans (born July 23, 1972) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer, beginning with his role as a pedestrian in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka in 1988.
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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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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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Minnie Riperton
Minnie Julia Riperton-Rudolph (November 8, 1947 – July 12, 1979), known professionally as Minnie Riperton, was an American singer-songwriter best known for her 1975 single "Lovin' You" and her four-octave coloratura soprano.
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NAACP Image Award for Outstanding News/Information – Series or Special
This page lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding News/Information – Series or Special.
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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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Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973) is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian, magician, and singer.
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Niall of the Nine Hostages
Niall Noígíallach (Old Irish "having nine hostages"), or in English, Niall of the Nine Hostages, was a prehistoric Irish king, the ancestor of the Uí Néill dynasties that dominated the northern half of Ireland from the 6th to the 10th century.
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Nicholas Turturro
Nicholas Turturro, (born January 29, 1962) is an American film, television and prolific on-stage character actor, known for his role as Detective James Martinez on the television series NYPD Blue.
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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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Patricia Arquette
Patricia Arquette (born April 8, 1968) is an Academy Award winning American actress.
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Paul Margulies
Paul Eli MarguliesFinding Your Roots, March 1, 2016, PBS (1935–2014) was an American writer, philosopher and advertising-industry creative director.
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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 Anyang' Nyong'o
Peter Anyang' Nyong'o (born 10 October, 1945) is a Kenyan politician.
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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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Richard Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate, investor and philanthropist.
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Richard Rudolph
Richard Rudolph (born October 27, 1946) is an American songwriter, musician, music publisher and producer.
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Richmond Arquette
Richmond Arquette (born August 21, 1963) is an American film and television actor.
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Rome, Georgia
Rome is the largest city in and the county seat of Floyd County, Georgia, United States.
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1976.
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Rosanna Arquette
Rosanna Lisa Arquette (born August 10, 1959) is an American actress, film director, and film producer.
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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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Shawn Wayans
Shawn Mathis Wayans (born January 19, 1971) is an American actor, DJ, producer, writer and comedian who starred in In Living Color, The Wayans Bros., and White Chicks.
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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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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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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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Tikar people
The Tikar is a blanket term used for several ethnic groups in Cameroon.
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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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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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Valerie Jarrett
Valerie June Jarrett (née Bowman; born November 14, 1956) is an American businesswoman and former government official.
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Wayans family
The Wayans family is a family including a number of directors, screenwriters, comedians, and actors.
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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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Who Do You Think You Are? (UK TV series)
Who Do You Think You Are? is a British genealogy documentary series that has aired on the BBC since 2004.
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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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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding_Your_Roots