I love this photo. My fav are the ladies expression in the background. Priceless. One of the best thus far.
Read MorePosts tagged Vanity
Model: Peggy Dillard – Vintage
Peggy became a model as the result of being a student, as she explains. Her career took off in a very uncanny way, without a portfolio or an agent. Preparing for shows as a student, she would visit many of the showrooms in the fashion district, and the designers would ask her to do their […]
Read MoreModel: Wanakee
Before Vera Wang became a national symbol for creativity and success, she was a talented and spirited fashion editor for Vogue Magazine. In 1981 she began featuring a new face in her glamorous editorial pages. Today artist Wanakee Pugh credits Ms. Wang for giving her a tremendous start that launched a successful twenty-year modeling […]
Read MoreRaquel Welch
She is Spanish Bolivian and English Actress, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She entered beauty contests as a teenager, and worked as a model, waitress, and television weather-girl before making her film debut in 1964. Launched as a sex symbol after her scantily clad appearance in One Million Years BC (1966), she was rarely challenged by later […]
Read More
African 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 MoreMicaela Reis
Angolan and Portuguese ancestry http://youtu.be/tSKXJWQ-bp4 the beauty pageant titleholder who was a Top 10 finalist at Miss Universe 2007 and placed first runner-up to Miss World 2007, becoming Miss World Africa. She was the highest placed Miss Angola at both Miss Universe and Miss Worldbefore the win of Leila Lopes in Miss Universe 2011 She was also named Miss World Continental Queen of Africa. […]
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 MoreVanity 6: Susan Moonsie Rapping
Susan Moonsie is of Black and Indian heritage originally from Trinidad. She was one of Prince’s high school girlfriends. Moonsie became a member of Vanity 6 in 1982. Susan was given a “teenage Lolita” image by Prince, for shock value—Susan claimed she was only 16 years old at the time, although she was 18 years old […]
Read MoreModel: Tsanna Latouche
Nationality: (Ajax, Ontario) Canadian Ethnicity: Indian and Jamaican She is 5’10 ft tall. Quote: The craziest thing I’ve ever had to do on a shoot: Shooting at night in the sea with what I was convinced were baby sharks. I’m best known for my (eyes, freckles, hips, etc.): Cat like eyes. She has been jetting around the […]
Read MoreModel: Nicole Murphy
Nationality: (Sacramento, California) American Ethnicity: British caucasion mother and African American father who was an Air Force pilot . She is 5’10 and has aqua eyes in-between blue and green. She is an American fashion model, television personality, designer, occasional actress and business woman. Nicole began her modeling career at age 13. Within a year, Nicole won […]
Read MoreModel: Julia Ogun
Nationality: Russian Ethnicity: Her mother is Russian and Her father is Nigerian, African. She speaks Russian, Spanish and English. She is 5’11 ft tall. Currently Living In Moscow, Russia. Education: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT) Research Interests: Mathematical Physics, Partial Differential Equations, MATH EDUCATION, Differential Equations, and Nonlinear hyperbolic equations. Orange Models […]
Read MoreModel: Jasmine Sanders
Nationality: American Ethnicity: German and African American. She was born in Germany. BIO/Interview below: When I was 13 years old, my mom was confronted by my mother agent, Sheilah Dixon of Millie Lewis South Carolina, to come to the agency to meet her. That meeting turned into a test shoot, which later turned into those […]
Read MoreBrazilian Actress & Model: Débora Nascimento
Nationality: Brazilian Place of birth: Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is 5’10 ft tall. Television Actress, Model and Personality. Débora Nascimento began her acting career as the lead character of the short film Cérbero, directed by Gastão Coimbra, and making a guest role on a television show called Paraíso Tropical novel/soap, as Elisa. Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Brazil’s population […]
Read MoreSuper Security For The Super Rich
The world’s billionaires are becoming more concerned for their personal safety and the security of their families. This has led to a high tech, high cost industry aimed at keeping the mega rich safe and secure. CNBC gives viewers rare access to eye-popping security measures from million dollar panic rooms built to withstand bullets, bombs […]
Read MoreA Choice Between School and Silicon Valley
Harvard student Connor Zwick thinks he can build the ultimate online educational tool. If he wins a Thiel Fellowship, he’ll have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to make that dream a reality. But should he really leave the Ivy League to launch a start-up?
Read MoreRipping Off the Rich
Did you know the world’s most valued treasures are vanishing in a multibillion-dollar black market business? From artwork and counterfeit wine to valuable pieces of history — we’ll take you inside the business that is ‘Ripping off the Rich.’ Bad is Big Business – Crime Inc.
Read MoreBrands target nouveau poor
Record high unemployment in the EU has forced some of the larger consumer goods companies to shift marketing strategies. They target poverty-stricken Europeans’ demand for cheaper goods in the midst of an economic crisis –
Read MoreBuilding the Oil Rigs
It has one of the world’s highest per capita GDP’s and is a global player in exports, in biotechnology and in tourism.
Read MoreScience: Chinese African Ancestors
An international study has found that the Chinese people originated not from Peking Man in northern China, but from early humans in East Africa who moved through South Asia to China some 100,000 years ago, Hong Kongs Ming Pao daily reported yesterday in a finding that confirms the single origin theory in anthropology.
Read MoreAfro-Russians Trailer
Black Russians is a feature length documentary that investigates the lives of contemporary Afro-Russians aged 10 to 65, born and raised in Soviet Russia. Their experiences chronicle two ideological currents that have shaped major international events in the twentieth century: race and communism. Intimate interviews with a poet, a film producer, a reggae artist, a […]
Read MoreChinese influence in Africa
The influence of China in Africa is growing as it partners with many nations, often to secure much-needed resources. Kate Evans filed this report from Guinea, one country cashing in on an old friend with new money.
Read MoreEconomic Boom Angola
Angola has emerged as one of the leading destinations for Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) into the African continent. The end of the civil war and the subsequent discovery of oil reserves has helped the Angolan economy at an unprecedented rate. We bring you excerpts from an informal interview with Carina Kiala, representative of a leading […]
Read MoreAngola – The Rise of a Colony | Global 3000
Until 1975, Angola was a Portuguese colony. Independence was followed by a lengthy civil war, which left the country in ruins. Now the tables have turned, and the former colony has become a booming economy and job engine for its former colonial master. 100,000 Portuguese have emigrated to Angola since the eurozone crisis began. The […]
Read MoreAngolans invest in Portugal’s sinking banks
Once Angola was an impoverished part of the Portuguese empire, now its oil wealth means its citizens are queuing to buy everything from vineyards to property in the former colonial power.
Read More