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Encyclopedia Britannica: Tiger Woods

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Tiger Woods, an American golfer who enjoyed one of the greatest amateur careers in the history of the game and became a dominant player on the professional circuit in the late 1990s. In...
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Timbaland

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Timbaland, an influential American producer and hip-hop and rhythm-and-blues performer who contributed to the chart-scaling success of a host of recording artists in the early 21st century.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Tim Duncan

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Tim Duncan, an American collegiate and professional basketball player, who led the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA) to four championships (1999, 2003, 2005,...
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Tina Turner

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Tina Turner, an American singer who found success in the rhythm-and-blues, soul, and rock genres in a career that spanned five decades.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Tom Bradley

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Tom Bradley, an American politician, the first African American mayor of a predominantly white city, who served an unprecedented five terms as mayor of Los Angeles (1973-93).
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Tommy Johnson

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Tommy Johnson, an African-American singer-guitarist, one of the most evocative and influential of blues artists.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Toni Stone

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Toni Stone, an American baseball player who, as a member of the Negro American League's Indianapolis Clowns, was the first woman to ever play professional baseball as a regular on a...
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Toussaint Louverture

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Toussaint Louverture, who overran Spanish Santo Domingo in January 1801, freed the slaves, and amazed the Europeans and natives with his magnanimity.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Ursula Burns

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Ursula Burns, an American chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the international document-management and business-services company Xerox Corporation, who was the first African...
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Valerie Jarrett

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Valerie Jarrett, an American lawyer, businesswoman, and politician who was a senior adviser (2009- ) to U.S. Pres. Barack Obama.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Val Mc Calla

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Val McCalla, a Jamaican-born British publisher who founded The Voice, an influential British newspaper focusing on black issues and interests.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Vernon Forrest

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Vernon Forrest, an American boxer born Jan. 12, 1971, Augusta, Ga.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Walter Page

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Walter Page, a black American swing-era musician, one of the first to play "walking" lines on the string bass. A pioneer of the Southwestern jazz style, he was a star of the Count Basie...
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Walter Payton

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Walter Payton, an American professional gridiron football player whose productivity and durability made him one of the game's greatest running backs. He retired in 1987 as the leading...
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Walt Frazier

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Walt Frazier, an American basketball player who was one of the finest professional guards in the late 1960s and early '70s.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Warren Aloysious Kimbro

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Warren Aloysious Kimbro, an American activist born April 29, 1934, New Haven, Conn.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Wayman Lawrence Tisdale

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Wayman Lawrence Tisdale, an American basketball player and smooth jazz musician born June 9, 1964, Tulsa, Okla.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Wayne Embry

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Wayne Embry, an American professional basketball player and the first African-American to serve as the general manager of a professional sports franchise.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Wayne Shorter

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Wayne Shorter, an African-American musician and composer, a major jazz saxophonist, among the most influential hard-bop and modal musicians and a pioneer of jazz-rock fusion music.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Wendell Phillips

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Wendell Phillips, an abolitionist crusader whose oratorical eloquence helped fire the antislavery cause during the period leading up to the American Civil War.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Wesley Snipes

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Wesley Snipes, an American actor best known for his action films, many of which featured martial arts.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Wes Montgomery

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Wes Montgomery, a black American jazz guitarist, probably the most influential postwar improviser on his instrument.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Whitney Houston

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Whitney Houston, an American singer and actress who was one of the best-selling musical performers of the 1980s and '90s.
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Encyclopedia Britannica: William Lewis Taylor

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This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features William Lewis Taylor, an American lawyer and civil rights activist born Oct. 4, 1931, New York, N.Y.