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Edison O. Jackson (born October 1, 1942) [1] was the sixth president of Bethune-Cookman University. Previously, he was president of Medgar Evers College from 1989 to 2009. In 2013, Jackson was appointed president of Bethune-Cookman University .
Andrew Ross (born 1956), a Scottish-born social activist and analyst, [1] is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University (NYU). He has authored and edited numerous books, and written for The New York Times , The Guardian , The Nation , Newsweek , and Al Jazeera .
Diahann Carroll (/ d aɪ ˈ æ n / dy-AN; born Carol Diann Johnson; July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019) was an American actress, singer, model, and activist.Carroll was the recipient of numerous stage and screen nominations and awards, including her Tony Award in 1962, Golden Globe Award in 1968, and five Emmy Award nominations.
Jackson was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden on February 25, 2022, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate and sworn into office that same year. [1] [2] She is the first black woman and the first former federal public defender to serve on the Supreme Court. Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Miami, Florida.
A.C. Jackson was an African American surgeon who was murdered during the Tulsa race massacre in 1921 and is known as the most prominent victim of the massacre. Jackson was a leading member of the Oklahoma medical community and the African-American community in Tulsa, Oklahoma until his death.
Ross Geller (born October 18, 1968), [2] portrayed by David Schwimmer, is one of the six main characters of the NBC sitcom Friends. Ross is considered by many to be ...
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (July 8, 1926 – August 24, 2004) was a Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies, and author of the internationally best-selling book, On Death and Dying (1969), where she first discussed her theory of the five stages of grief, also known as the "Kübler-Ross model".
Marcus R. Ross (born 1976) is an American young earth creationist and vertebrate paleontologist. Ross was featured in a February 2007 New York Times article about the conflict between his young Earth creationist beliefs (which hold the Earth to be only thousands of years old) and his doctoral dissertation (which involved animals extinct for ...