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Model: Shanina Shaik
Nationality:Australian Place of birth:Melbourne, Australia Ethnicity:Pakistani, Saudi Arabian and Lithuanian Shanina Shaik was a runner up on the reality TV series Make Me a Supermodel. While on the show, she met US model/actor Tyson Beckford, who featured as one of the judges and whom she is currently dating. “I’m not sure if my look is an […]
Read MoreModel: Jourdan Dunn
Nationality: British Ethnicity: African descent On the cover of The Sunday Times Style UK with an featured interview inside the magazine Jourdan Dunn – runway star London born Jourdan Dunn was discovered in a local Primark at 16 by the legendary agency Storm Models (who also discovered Kate Moss) and has been unstoppable ever since. […]
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Model: Yasmin Warsame
Nationality: Canadian Ethnicity and place of birth: Mogadishu, Somalia, African. She stands at 5’11 Ft tall. This woman also looks similar to Nefertiti. I can see her or other women with similar appearances portraying the ancient Egyptian/African Queen. Yasmin Warsame is a Somali-born Canadian supermodel. She moved from Somalia to Toronto, Canada when she was fifteen. Warsame […]
Read MoreStar Trek’s Nichelle Nichols aka Uhura
“Who knew that Nichelle Nichols sizzled in the local cabaret scene before taking up her earpiece on the starship Enterprise.
Read MoreEx-Model, Actress & Singer: Vanity AKA Denise Katrina Matthews
Nationality: Canadian Ethnicity: She is African American and German. Born Denise Katrina Matthews, Vanity is a glamorous Canadian ex-model and lead singer of the all-girl group “Vanity 6” of German and African/American , she specialized in playing sultry female characters often in trouble with the law. (CNN) Vanity fronted the group Vanity 6 but was best […]
Read MoreAncient burial structures of former Kings from Qa’ableh, Somali, Africa
Most of these historical sites have still yet to be fully explored. The town is believed to harbor the tombs of former kings from early periods of Somali history, as evidenced by the many ancient burial structures and cairns (taalo) that are found here. Qa’ableh is a town in the northern Sanaag region of Somalia. […]
Read MoreBrazilian Model & Actress: Taís Araújo
Nationality: Brazilian Birthplace: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Ethnicity: African, Austrian and Portuguese descent. Brazil’s population includes the largest number of people of African descent in the entire Western Hemisphere. Ms. Araújo became the first black actress to be a leading character of a telenovela in prime time of the largest Brazilian television network, Rede Globo. An artist rendition of her beauty below – @_jd_m […]
Read MoreModel: Chrystèle Saint-Louis Augustin
Nationality: French Ethnicity: Guadeloupean / Martiniquais (Caribbean /West Indies) African descent. Ms. Augustin speaks French and English. She is 5’10 1/2 ft tall with blue eyes. Quote: Both my parents and my brother are dark skinned but the West Indies are a mix of genes from different countries and you never know what skin color your baby […]
Read MoreNaomi Campbell’s Egyptian Eye of Horus on Cleopatra Island in Turkey’s Gulf of Gökova.
Nationality: British Ethnicity: Campbell is of African-Jamaican descent, as well as of Chinese Jamaican ancestry through her paternal grandmother, who carried the family name Ming. In 2012 Naomi Campbell received an island vacation home for her 41st birthday from her Russian billionaire boyfriend Vladislav Doronin. It’s shaped like the Egyptian Eye of Horus on a location known as Cleopatra […]
Read MoreModel: Sessilee Lopez
Nationality: (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) American. Ethnicity: Cuban, African-American, Dominican and Portuguese background, Afro-Latina. She has appeared in Vogue and graced one of the four covers of its “All Black” issue. Her career started in 2004, when she signed with IMG Models. A fan of her Beauty, tattooed her image on the back of his hand. Her runway […]
Read MoreModel: Jasmine Tookes
Nationality: American Ethnicity: African, West Indian and her maternal grandmother is Caucasian. Tookes was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California.She has a younger sister, who is 19 years her junior. She did gymnastics for ten years and was also active in volleyball and softball before she became a model at about the age of […]
Read MoreBrazilian Actress and Model: Ildi Silva
Nationality: Brazilian Place of birth: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Brazilians are of mixed heritage Trade Mark: Her green eyes Brazil officially the Federative Republic of Brazil is the largest country in both South America and theLatin American region. It is the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world, and the only one in the Americas. […]
Read MoreModel: Fatima Siad
Nationality: American Ethnicity: Somali and Ethiopian Fatima Siad raised in Boston, Massachusetts, she placed third on America’s Next Top Model, Cycle 10. Personnel Quote: Be Comfortable in your Own Skin And You Won’t Hate on Others in Theirs Personal Quotes: I don’t want to be known as ‘Baby Iman. I want to make a name for myself. […]
Read More80’s Supermodel Waris Dirie
80’s supermodel Waris Dirie was born into a nomadic tribe in Somalia. Ms. Dirie ran away at age thirteen to avoid marriage a much older man. After working odd jobs in London, she was discovered by photographer Terence Donovan, who shot her for her the cover of the 1987 Pirelli calendar. From […]
Read MoreRussian Models, Fur and Heels
Ksenia Sukhinova from the city of Tyumen, gained the title of Miss World 2008. Natalia Vodianova, a Russian supermodel, is now very popular in the USA and in Europe. Masha Kalinina became Miss Moscow-1988 when she was only 16. The streets beat the rhythm of thousands of high heels pounding the cold pavement – in […]
Read MoreThe Barbie Doll Test
This video program, produced by Modesto Junior College video producer Wes Page, documents an experiment by Professor Sam Pierstorff and his English 101 class. Small children are asked questions about Barbie dolls of different ethnicity. Shade This short TV documentary is an introduction to the issue of shadeism, the discrimination that exists between the lighter-skinned […]
Read MoreStacey Dash
Nationality: American Place of birth: Bronx, New York, US Ethnicity: Mexican and Afro-Bajan descent. Stacey Dash was born in the Bronx, New York. Stacy knew that she wanted to act, and from an early age began to act professionally. She made regular appearances on “The Cosby Show” (1984), “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” (1990), and also “St. Elsewhere”(1982). At 22 she […]
Read MoreSheron Menezes – Brazilian Actress
Nationality: Brazilian Place of birth: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil The actress starred in the TV Globo soap opera Esperança in April 2002 with the approval of the director Luiz Fernando Carvalho who was impressed with his test and suggested to the author, Benedito Ruy Barbosa, the changing age of the character, Julia, oldest first, so it could […]
Read MoreModel & Beauty Queen: Leila Arcieri
Nationality: American Ethnicity:Her father is Italian and mother is African American. She was crowned Miss San Francisco in 1997. Her mother worked for Lucasfilm. Her father is Italian and her mother is black. Parents divorced when she was 2; she was raised by her mother. Became a cheerleader in Junior High School to […]
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 MoreJuliana Imai
Nationality: Brazilian Ethnicity: Brazilian/Japanese Place of birth: Cruzeiro D’Oeste, Parana, Brasil
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 MoreMichael Michele
Nationality: American Ethnicity: African American and Caucasian Michael Michele has won acclaim for her portrayals of strong and capable women on television as well as in feature films. Born in Evansville, Indiana, on August 30, 1966, she, like practically everyone in the Hoosier State, grew up a big basketball fan. Michele played roundball […]
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 […]
Read Morekristen wilson
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). […]
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