Nationality: American Ethnicity: Mother is Cherokee & African American & Father Dutch or German descent. Her surname Kitt is said to be of Dutch or German origin. In the late 1960s, Batman featured recurring villain Kitt as Catwoman after Julie Newmar had left the role, in season 3. She had sung and danced her way out […]
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Inside America’s Black Upper Class
Debutante cotillions. Arranged marriages. Summer trips to Martha’s Vineyard. All-black boarding schools. Memberships in the Links, Deltas, Bouleacute, or Jack and Jill. Million-dollar homes. An obsession with good hair, top credentials, and colleges like Howard, Spelman, and Harvard… This is the world of the black upper class– an exclusive, mostly hidden group that lives awkwardly […]
Read MoreActress & Singer: Joyce Bryant
Her signature silver hair and tight mermaid dresses, she became an early African-American sex symbol, garnering such nicknames as “The Bronze Blond Bombshell”, “the black Marilyn Monroe”, “The Belter”, and “The Voice You’ll Always Remember”. She achieved fame in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s as a theater and nightclub performer. During the late 1940’s, Bryant […]
Read MoreReal Amazon Women across the Ancient World
Who were these bold barbarian archers on horseback who gloried in fighting, hunting, and sexual freedom? Were Amazons real? In this deeply researched, wide-ranging, and lavishly illustrated book, National Book Award finalist Adrienne Mayor presents the Amazons as they have never been seen before. This is the first comprehensive account of warrior women in myth […]
Read MoreSevern Suzuki speaking at UN Earth Summit 1992
Raised in Vancouver and Toronto, Severn Cullis-Suzuki has been camping and hiking all her life. When she was 9 she started the Environmental Children’s Organization (ECO), a small group of children committed to learning and teaching other kids about environmental issues. They were successful in many projects before 1992, when they raised enough money to […]
Read MoreMiss Universe 1977 Crowning
Janelle Commissiong: The First Black Miss Universe Janelle Commissiong (born 1953) was born in Trinidad and Tobago. Commissiong migrated to the United States at the age of 13, and returned to Trinidad and Tobago ten years later. After winning the Miss Trinidad and Tobago title, she went on to be crowned Miss Universe 1977 in […]
Read MoreTuskegee Airmen
In spite of adversity and limited opportunities, African Americans have played a significant role in U.S. military history over the past 300 years. They were denied military leadership roles and skilled training because many believed they lacked qualifications for combat duty. Before 1940, African Americans were barred from flying for the US military. Civil rights […]
Read MoreBooks and Documentary: Black Athena – Full version
Winner of the American Book Award and a Socialist Review Book Award What is classical about Classical Civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the whole basis of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. But these Afroasiatic influences […]
Read MoreSteve Jobs
Nationality: American Place of birth: San Francisco, California Ethnicity: Syrian and German American Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs was an American businessman, designer and inventor. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56. […]
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Nationality: British Birth Name: Helen Folasade Adu Birth Place: Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Ethnicity: English and Yoruba Nigerian the British singer Sade Adu, was born to an English Mother and a Yoruba Nigerian Father. She was born in Nigeria and lived there until she was four was 4 years old. http://youtu.be/KWy3X7f4MyY Source: http://www.sade.com/gb/biography/ http://youtu.be/Jg7OgfFkkGA
Read MoreSelena Quintanilla
Nationality: American Place of birth: Lake Jackson, Texas. U.S. Ethnicity: Mexican and Native American Cherokee Selena Quintanilla-Pérez (April 16, 1971 – March 31, 1995), known simply as Selena, was an American singer-songwriter. She was named the “top Latin artist of the ’90s” and “Best selling Latin artist of the decade” by Billboard for her fourteen top-ten singles in the Top […]
Read Morephyllis hyman
Nationality and Ethnicity: African American Deep-voiced and statuesque, Phyllis Hyman sang with a life-affirming energy and emotional intensity found in few other female vocalists. Born in Philadelphia in 1949 (and raised in Pittsburgh), her professional career began in New York City where, during an engagement, she was spotted by producer Norman Connors and contemporaries Jean Carne and Roberta Flack, among […]
Read MoreSalli Richardson
Nationality: American Ethnicity: African American/Native American (Cherokee) and Caucasian (English/Italian). http://youtu.be/mUKuMOqQ90o Salli Elise Richardson was born November 23, 1967, in Chicago, Illinois. Salli’s acting career was first nurtured in the theater. Her first feature performance was in 1991 as “Denise” in Up Against the Wall (1991). However, her breakthrough role was in 1993’s How U Like Me […]
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Nationality: American Ethnicity: Unknown, she’s adopted. Kristen Wilson was born and raised in Massachusetts where she trained as a dancer and performed with the Boston Ballet for four years. She received her BFA degree in musical theatre from Syracuse University. Taking time out in her junior year to take part in a national tour of […]
Read MoreLead Dancer “Darcel Wynne” of solid gold
Nationality and Ethnicity: African American African-American stunner Darcel Wynne was born on June 13, 1953 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Darcel moved to Hollywood, California as a teenager and got her first professional television dancing gig at age fourteen (she lied about her age and claimed she was eighteen in order to get this particular job). […]
Read MoreAfrican Tribal Dance
From the movie “Coming to America”. Choreography by Paula Abdul Her father (Harry Abdul) is of Sephardic Jewish background from Syria. Her mother is also Jewish and was born in Canada. Her parents have lived in Syria, Brazil, and Canada – and this varied background has contributed to incredibly different stories in the press […]
Read MoreBrave New World
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3536993421073315692 In a future society based on pleasure without moral worries, love is prohibited but casual sex, now called ‘engaging’, is strongly encouraged. Everyone is kept happy with a legal drug, soma. People are hatched and cloned on conveyor belts to meet the requirements of five different social classes, from ruling Alphas to robot-like […]
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