Posts in category Classics

Actress & Singer: Dorothy Dandridge As Carmen Jones

November 18, 2015 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

In 1943, Oscar Hammerstein Jr. took Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen, rewrote the lyrics, changed the characters from 19th century Spaniards to World War II-era African-Americans, switched the locale to a Southern military base, and the result was Carmen Jones. Dorothy Dandridge stars as Carmen Jones, tempestuous employee of a parachute factory. Harry Belafonte plays Joe (originally José), a young military officer engaged to marry virginal Cindy Lou (Olga James). When Carmen gets into a fight with another girl, she is placed under arrest and put in Joe’s charge. Succumbing to her attractiveness, Joe accompanies Carmen to her old neighborhood, where, after killing a sergeant sent to retrieve him, he deserts the army. Carmen tries to be faithful, but fortune-telling Frankie (Pearl Bailey) warns her that she and her soldier are doomed. Enter Joe Adams in the role of boxer Husky Miller (a play on Carmen’s bullfighter Escamillo), who sweeps Carmen off her feet, ultimately with tragic consequences. Alhough both Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte were singers, their opera voices were dubbed in by LeVern Hutcherson and Marilyn Horne.

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Actress & Singer: Eartha Kitt as Catwoman

October 18, 2015 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

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 […]

Actors, Photography

Acting, Actress, Art, Cat woman, chic, classic, classy, dress, Eartha Kitt, France, leisure, movie, Music, musical, Photography, sag, Screen Actors Guild, Travel

Inside America’s Black Upper Class

October 14, 2015 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

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 […]

Beauty, Book, History, Photography

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Real Amazon Women across the Ancient World

December 5, 2014 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

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 […]

ART, Book, History

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The Power of Beauty: Survival of the Prettiest

November 19, 2014 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Beauty, Documentary, Science, Theory

attractiveness, reproduction

Hair Archaeologist? She’s Real

November 19, 2014 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

ART, Beauty, inspirational

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Jamaica’s rudeboys

July 4, 2014 Written by sola rey

Fashion

Ancient mysteries: World trade?

February 28, 2013 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Documentary, Royalty, Theory

Darcel Wynne – Solid Gold Lead Dancer

February 23, 2013 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Eileen Ford: Six Decades of Defining Beauty

February 14, 2013 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Beauty, Documentary, Fashion, interview, Models

Looks Just Like You

November 12, 2012 2 Comments Written by sola rey

Beauty

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Severn Suzuki speaking at UN Earth Summit 1992

October 10, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

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 […]

inspirational, Science

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Great Advice from the older generation

August 26, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

I love this video, press play and see why.

interview, Uncategorized

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Shocking 1950’s Commercial!

August 22, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

You simply will not believe what they did to this model’s face to test a cold cream!

Walt Disney

August 22, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Old banned cartoon. A Walt Disney production

Miss Universe 1977 Crowning

August 19, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

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 […]

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Perfect 10 at the Olympics: Nadia Comaneci

August 13, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

MONTREAL, Canada — At the Montreal Olympics, Nadia Comaneci, 14, all of four feet and 11 inches and weighing 86 pounds, stunned everyone, including the judges to score a perfect 10 on the uneven bars http://youtu.be/mYGYzyS1eAk

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10 Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions

August 11, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

american inventor, Inventor, leisure

Tuskegee Airmen

August 10, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

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 […]

Books and Documentary: Black Athena – Full version

August 6, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

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 […]

Steve Jobs

August 6, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

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. […]

Technology

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sade

August 6, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

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

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Selena Quintanilla

August 6, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

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 […]

Beauty, Trailers

Acting, Art, Athena, classic, entertainment, leisure, Mexican, movie, Music, native american mother, Selena Quintanilla

phyllis hyman

August 4, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

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 […]

Salli Richardson

August 4, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

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 […]

Beauty, Movie

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kristen wilson

August 4, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

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 […]

Actors, Beauty, Movie

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Lead Dancer “Darcel Wynne” of solid gold

August 4, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

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). […]

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African Tribal Dance

August 2, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

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 […]

Eddie Murphy–Party All The Time

August 2, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

http://youtu.be/iRBsKwG2-kc

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Brave New World

August 1, 2012 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

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 […]

Movie, Science, Technology, Theory

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