Nationality: (Texas) American Ethnicity: African descent A fan of her beauty was inspired to paint an abstract image of her. Art by artandlyfe.com New Guards is a short film exploring identity and race-relations in the United States through an emphasis on jarring aesthetics, movement, and symbolism. New Guards aims to shock people out of their complacencies on […]
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Model: 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 MoreThe Kingdom of Kongo’s 15th Century Art
Kongo art at the NYC Metropolitan Museum will assemble for the first time the majority of works produced by three of Central Africa’s most talented master sculptors. This exhibition is open to the public untill January 3, 2016. Kongo society’s most gifted artists were in great demand by patrons who required their talents for the […]
Read MoreModel & Actress: Marisa Bryant
Nationality: (Las Vegas) American. Ethnicity: Mother Caucasian and Father African descent. She’s 5’9 1/2 ft tall with Green eyes. Quote: I’ve walked for Multiple Designers during Fashion Week in New York, LasVegas, and California. This is my life, This is what I do and I am dedicated to working my way up to become a Well […]
Read More200 Angels Swore An Oath
I’m a lover of old books, needless to say texts like these peeked my curiosity and others around the world; that’s why you have sci-fi books, movies, tv-shows and plays about these Angels. Every one seems to have their own interpretation on this subject. It’s hard to figure out, who’s right and who’s wrong. Obviously I […]
Read MoreAfter 117 Years African Art Returned
Mark Walker outside of the Oba Palace in Benin (now Edo state) Nigeria posing with one of two statues that he returned to Nigeria, after having being looted over 117 years ago by his ancestor Captain Herbert Walker during the 1897 Punitive Expedition. This has opened the door to many requests for other stolen works, […]
Read MoreModel: Brittany Bradley
Nationality: American Ethnicity: African descent. Quote: Growing up, I started getting picked on a lot because of my size, my hair, clothes, shoes, and my skin. It started to take a toll on me and I didn’t want to go to school some days because of the bullying. It bothered me a lot being that I […]
Read MoreMarvel Comics: Misty Knight
Misty Knight is a African-American fictional character in Marvel Comics‘ Marvel Universe. She was first mentioned (by name) in Marvel Premiere #20 (January 1975) and appeared in the next issue. Graduating from New York City’s police academy with top honors, Misty Knight became a patrolwoman at the Twelfth Precinct in partnership with Rafe Scarfe. Early in […]
Read MoreSupermodel by Day & Superhero by Night: D.C. Comic’s Vixen
Vixen (Mari Jiwe McCabe) is a black comic book character created by Gerry Conway and Bob Oksner. Who moved to America, where she established an identity as Mari McCabe and got a job as a model in New York City. She used her newfound wealth to travel the world. On a trip back to Africa, she came […]
Read MoreRandom Tattoos of Female Superhero Storm
CHARACTER INFO Real Name Ororo Munroe Height 5’11” Weight 127 lbs. Ororo Monroe is the descendant of an ancient line of African priestesses, all of whom have white hair, blue eyes, and the potential to wield magic. source: www.trueartists.com Powers: Storm is an extremely powerful mutant and has demonstrated a plethora of abilities, most of which […]
Read MoreRandom Akasha Inspired Tattoos, Paintings & Drawings
Akasha was played by Aaliyah Dana Haughton , she was an American singer, dancer, actress, and model. The a fictitious character was written by Famous author Anne Rice. Queen Akasha was the first vampire in existence that came from Egypt. She was known among vampires as the “Queen of the Damned”. The Queen of the Damned (1988) is […]
Read MoreTaina Warrior Chief of Xaragua: Anacaona from Hispaniola/Haiti
Anacaona was born in Yaguana (today the town of Léogane, Haiti) in 1474. During Christopher Columbus‘s visit to the chiefdom of Xaragua in what is now southwest Haiti in late 1496, where Anacaona and her brother Bohechío appeared as equal negotiators. She fought the Spaniards who was trying to colonize Hispaniola at the time. Anacaona […]
Read MoreRuins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara from Tanzania, Africa
Africa is a large continent, not everyone was living in mud huts; past & present. The remains of two great East African ports admired by early European explorers are situated on two small islands near the coast. From the 13th to the 16th century, the merchants of Kilwa dealt in gold, silver, pearls, perfumes, Arabian […]
Read MoreLion shaped mountain rock from Yeha, Ethiopia, Africa.
Natural or Man Made? Yeha is described as “a large Bronze Age archaeological site and the most impressive site in the Horn of Africa showing evidence of contact with South Arabia. There are roads leading to a building constructed as far back as the 7th century BC. Yeha is one of Ethiopia’s major cities in the Tigrai […]
Read MoreScience: The women with super-human vision
These rare individuals, mostly women, have a genetic mutation granting them an extra, fourth cone cell. As a rough approximation based on the number of these extra cones, tetrachromats might see 100 million colors. Since women have two X chromosomes, they could potentially carry two different versions of the gene, each encoding for a cone […]
Read MoreEver Heard Of Female Angels?
Angels are almost always male and are referred to as the sons of god. Although Zechariah 5:9 is the only reference to 2 female angels are seen with wings of crane. Zechariah 5:9 Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and there two women were coming out with the wind in their wings; and they […]
Read MoreOur Love For Gold
Since the time of King Mansa Musa and before that, there were ancient African gold mines as far down the Continent as South Africa. Hello every one, I tried to share some of the best Royal African Kings and Queens photos with their amazing Gold jewelry. I love accessories; so sharing things like this with […]
Read MoreModel & Actress: Chanokporn Sayoungkul
Nationality: Thai Ethnicity: (Thailand) South East Asian http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/movies/headshot-directed-by-pen-ek-ratanaruang. Bangkok is the largest city, business and industrial center of Thailand. Thailand is a country on Southeast Asia’s Indochina peninsula known for tropical beaches, opulent royal palaces, ancient ruins and ornate temples displaying figures of Buddha, a revered symbol. In Bangkok, the capital, an ultramodern city […]
Read MorePublished in 1510 “QUEEN CALAFIA” is this Legend or Fact?
THE BLACK AMAZON QUEEN AFTER WHOM CALIFORNIA IS NAMED. People in general who knows about this legend see it as hidden history, while others see it as myth. Currently to this day their are debates on the vility of her existence. One source maintains that the Spaniards upon arriving along the California shores saw a number of Black […]
Read MoreModel: Amanda Hill
Nationality: American Ethnicity: Father is African descent and her mother is Caucasian. “Amanda Hill” My name is Amanda Hill. I am 5’10, 18 years old, and have been modeling for four years. People call me bubbles or giggles because i always have a smile on my face; but if you need serious, serious is what […]
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 MoreLast Pharaoh: Queen Cleopatra
Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren did their best but according to a leading Egyptologist, they came nowhere near to an accurate portrayal of ancient Queen Cleopatra. Using images from ancient artifacts including a ring dating from Cleopatra’s reign 2,000 years ago, Cambridge University’s Sally Ann Ashton (above) has pieced together an entirely different image that […]
Read More10 Circular Igbo iron-smelting pyramids at Nsude, Enugu State of Nigeria, Africa
Recent archaeological discoveries in Nigeria suggests that iron smelting and blacksmith work was performed at a much earlier time — as early as 2000-2500 BCE — at high-levels of production and involving wide trade distribution among the ancient Igboland peoples in West Africa. Carbon dating information has been unattainable to date. Ancient Iron works/artifacts from […]
Read MoreRandom Egyptian Inspired Tattoos World Wide
A tattoo is a form of body modification, made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment. The word tattoo, or tattow in the 18th century, is a loanword from the Polynesian word tatau, meaning “correct, workmanlike”. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the etymology of tattoo as “In 18th century,tattaow, […]
Read MoreOnly a man would have thought to look from behind
No comment. Torso of Queen Nefertiti at British Museum shop online Torso of Queen Nefertiti | Boutiques de Musées http://www.louvre.fr/en
Read MoreEstimated 15,000 Pre-historic rock art paintings from Tassili, Sahara Desert of North Africa
Tassili n’Ajjer is a vast plateau in south-east Algeria at the borders of Libya, Niger and Mali, covering an area of 72,000 sq. km. The exceptional density of paintings and engravings, and the presence of many prehistoric vestiges, are remarkable testimonies to Prehistory. From 10,000 BC to the first centuries of our era, successive peoples left […]
Read MoreLalibela and its 12th-13th century rock-cut Christian churches in Ethiopia, Africa
The Church of St. George is one of eleven monolithic churches in Lalibela, a city in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Originally named Roha or Warwar, this historical and religious site is currently accepted in the modern name of Lalibela, after King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela of Ethiopia, who is regarded as a saint-like figure by […]
Read MoreMUGLER’s spectacular runway show 88
Iman is fluent in five languages: Somali, Arabic, Italian, French and English. I rarely see diversity like this on the runway. This is so refreshing. I had mixed up emotions watching this. I was so elated to find videos like these and also sad that I don’t see more in the commercial and runway world. […]
Read MoreAncient Nubian & Egyptian Tattoos?
Tattooing is belived to have originated in Nubia, in the 4th century B.C. (source: one of Ms. Nancy Etcoff books) In Egypt, tattoos were seemingly only worn by women. As more evidence came to light of tattooed women who were obviously priestesses and members of the court. The concept of cultic tattoos identifying a woman with […]
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