Joseph L. Graves, Jr
Joseph L. Graves, Jr., is an expert in evolutionary genetics who has studied the process of aging through the reproduction of fruit flies. Another of...
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William Augustus Hinton
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William A. Hinton was born on December 15, 1883, in Chicago, Illinois. His parents had both been enslaved. He entered Harvard College in 1902 and...
Vanessa Northington Gamble
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Vanessa Northington Gamble, M.D., Ph.D., is a University Professor of Medical Humanities at George Washington University. She is the first woman and first African American...
John Henryism
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John Henryism (JH), a psychological construct formally proposed in 1983 by Sherman James and colleagues (James et al. 1983), is defined as a “strong behavioral...
Sherman James
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African American epidemiologist and health researcher Sherman James is known for his concept of “John Henryism,” which attributes the premature deaths of African Americans to...
Sekazi K. Mtingwa
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Research physicist and physics professor Sekazi K. Mtingwa was born on October 20, 1949, in Atlanta, Georgia. After receiving his B.S. degrees in physics and...
Dr. Olajide Williams
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Dr. Olajide Williams, MD, MS is a Professor and Chief of Staff of the Department of Neurology at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians...
Dr. Dorceta Taylor
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Dr. Dorceta Taylor is a professor at the Yale School for the Environment. Prior to that, she was a professor of environmental sociology at the...
Dr. Genevieve Neal-Perry
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Dr. Genevieve Neal-Perry, MD, Ph.D. was born and raised in New Jersey. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and obtained her MD/Ph.D. in...
Karen Elizabeth Nelson
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Scientist Karen Elizabeth Nelson was born in Jamaica in 1950 and migrated to the United States in the 1970s. She received a Bachelor of Science...