No historian has done more to recover the stories of enslaved African-Americans than Annette Gordon-Reed, whose 2008 book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as wide acclaim.
Dr Angela Yvonne Davis is a prominent political activist, scholar, and author.
Dr. Pearl Williams-Jones (1931-1991) was a gospel musician, composer, and scholar.
In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge terror of the 1970s devastated the institutions that supported dance drama. The tradition was uprooted as dancers and musicians who had survived the genocide fled to the United States. Three of these artists, determined to keep their heritage a living part of Cambodian life in the United States, formed the Apsara Ensemble.
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Irish academic, code breaker, musicologist and translator
African-American Women’s Army Corps officer during World War II
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Russian émigré, historian of Russian medieval art, writer, and educator