In a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological, linguistic and climatic data, Oppenheimer challenges current thinking with his claim that there was only one successful migration out of Africa. In 1988 Newsweek headlined the startling discovery that everyone alive on the earth today can trace their maternal DNA back to one woman who lived in Africa […]
Model: Dani Evans
Nationality: (Little Rock, Arkansas) American Ethnicity: African descent. In May 2006, she won Cycle 6 of America’s Next Top Model. She is 5’11 ft tall. Evans was never placed below sixth and was thought by the judges to be one of the front-runners in the competition, noted for her striking face. It was not until […]
Model, Socialite & Ex-Beauty Queen: Miriam Odemba
Nationality: French Ethnicity: (Arusha, Tanzania) African. She speaks 3 languages: French, Swahili & English. She was Miss Tanzania Earth 2008 and Miss Earth Air 2008 (first runner up). She is one of the best models from her country where she started her modeling career at an early age and emerged into the limelight in 1997 when she […]
Empire – The New Scramble for Africa
The rivalry between Britain, France, Germany, and the other European powers accounts for a large part of the colonization. While tropical Africa was not a large zone of investment, other overseas regions were. The vast interior between the gold and diamond-rich Southern Africa and Egypt had strategic value in securing the flow of overseas trade. […]
Model: Alecia Morais
Nationality: Unknown Ethnicity: Cabo Verde, Africa. She speaks Portuguese & English. Winner of Elite Model Look Cape Verde 2012 & a Top 15 finalist at the World Finals. Quote: I would love to live and work in Paris, the capital of fashion! That’s why I want to be the best I can, and give everything […]
Prehistoric Calendar Circle Of Nabta Playa Astronomy, Egypt, Africa
Archaeological discoveries reveal that these prehistoric peoples led livelihoods seemingly at a higher level of organization than their contemporaries who lived closer to the Nile Valley. The people of Nabta Playa had: above-ground and below-ground stone construction, villages designed in pre-planned arrangements, and deep wells that held water throughout the year. Findings also indicate that the […]
The Berlin Conference of 1884
Greed placed over Humanity. The Berlin Conference of 1884, which regulated European colonization and trade in Africa, is usually referred to as the starting point of the Conquest of Africa. During this period, the land was divided amongst the European elite, without one African representative present. Original African nations was divided in the name of “progress”. […]
Eve (Discovery Channel)
Broadcast (2002) Narrated by Danny Glover, “The Real Eve” reveals that our shared genetic heritage links every living person on earth and traces the expansion of modern humans throughout the world. The discovery of the Eve gene stunned the world. It seems we could all be descended from just one female who lived in Africa. […]
Model, Singer & Actress: Chasity Samone
Nationality: (Texas) American Ethnicity: African descent A fan of her beauty was inspired to paint an abstract image of her. Art by artandlyfe.com https://vimeo.com/129737075 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 […]
Model: Patrish Zea
Nationality: British Ethnicity: African descent Patrish Zea was scouted severeal times when she was a young teenager. This happened on various occasions like on Oxford Street, in shops and there was even a time when a woman got off her bicycle and stopped her on Brixton Road! Signed to Profile Model Management, A 2015 UCL […]
3rd Century BC Stone Circles Of Gambia and Senegal, Africa
African Stonehenge? Scientists seek to unravel the mysteries of thousands of odd, ancient burial markers in Senegal. The site consists of four large groups of stone circles that represent an extraordinary concentration of over 1,000 monuments in a band 100 km wide along some 350 km of the River Gambia. The four groups, Sine Ngayène, Wanar, […]
3.3 Million Year-Old Tools Discovered in Kenya, Africa
The shores of Lake Turkana, where many fossils of human ancestors have been found, are also the home of what may be the oldest known tools. Push the known date of such tools back by 700,000 years; they also may challenge the notion that our own most direct ancestors were the first to bang two […]
Doctor, Actress & Beauty Enthusiast: Linda Alexandrovna
Nationality: (St. Petersburg) Russian Ethnicity: Russian, Angolan and Portuguese roots. She was born in Uzbekistan. She speaks Russian and English. Quote: I love travelling, and I think the happiest person – is the one who travel…and who travel with the one she loves:) A few travel destinations Dubai, United Arab Emirates Paris, France Russia St. Petersburg […]
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 […]
Actress: Halle Berry As Catwoman
Nationality: American. Ethnicity: Mother Caucasian & Father African American. Catwoman is a 2004 American superhero film directed by Pitof and stars Halle Berry, The film is loosely based on the DC Comics character of the same name, who is traditionally an anti-heroine and love interest of the vigilante hero Batman. The catsuit was designed by […]
Actress & Singer: Eartha Kitt as Catwoman
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. https://youtu.be/zXrLJEN0jAQ She had sung and danced her way […]
The 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 […]
Model: Nicole Whittaker
Nationality: Unknown Ethnicity: Cayman Islands (West Indies/Caribbean) African descent. Nicole Whittaker is making her stamp in the fashion world. Ms. Whittaker has graced the pages of Teen Vogue, Essence and Glitter magazines. She has also appeared on the well known talk shows like the Today Show and The View, but it doesn’t end there for the […]
Model & 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 […]
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 […]
The Story of Blacks in Hollywood
In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tells–for the first time–the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them. Through interviews and the […]
Model, Actress and App Developer /IOS Programmer : Lyndsey Scott
Nationality: (New Jersey) American. Ethnicity: African descent. Lyndsey is a successful model with a Computer Science major who creates apps and promote diversity in the tech world.. After graduating from Amherst College with dual majors in Theater and Computer Science, Lyndsey started acting and modeling in NYC and soon became the first African-American model ever […]
Africa Is Not A Country
1.1 billion people on the continent of Africa is home to 54 different nations, more than 2,000 languages and four of the world’s 10 fastest growing economies, but is often painted with a sweeping stroke of doom and gloom. The continent had 7 female presidents. It’s the fastest growing market in the world for mobile […]
Model, Law Student & Ex-Beauty Queen : Leila Ndabirabe
Nationality: Belgian Ethnicity: Burundi, African. She speaks 7 languages: French, English, Dutch, German, a little Chinese, Swahili & Kirundi. Ms. Ndabirabe was former Miss Union Africaine 6ème région. She is 5’11 tall. With Leila Ndabirabe penetrating puppy dog brown eyes, and immaculate skin tone, it’s unsurprising that Ndabirabe eclipsed the field during her rookie show season, displaying […]
Citrus Detox Bottle
I have this bottle and it’s easy to use especially when your on the run. The Citrus Zinger is a great alternative. Glass bottles are heavy and can easily break. Ordinary water bottle entry ways are too small to fit large fruits. Unless you want to take out more of your time to chop up the […]
Best Inexpensive Mascara For Volume & Length.
Hello ladies, I thought it would be nice to share with you some of my beauty products and tips. This is one of the mascaras I use the most. I buy it in curved brush that is waterproof in black/noir because it wont smudge if you tear up and you can see every strand of eyelash […]
Brazilian Model: Yasmin Santana
Nationality: Brazilian Speaks Brazilian Portuguese. Eyes: Green www.40grausmodels.com/novo/portfolio/yasmin-santana Brazilians are of mixed heritage Brazil has the world’s second biggest black population after Nigeria, the largest number of people of Japanese ancestry outside Japan, and more people of Lebanese or Syrian extraction than the combined populations of Lebanon and Syria. Brazil census shows African-Brazilians […]
Model: Isabella Derrick
Nationality: (California) American. Ethnicity: Mother unknown and Father is African descent. She’s currently with L.A.Models New Faces Division. With Victoria Secret Models Doutzen Kroes and Adriana Lima. California, a western U.S. state, stretches from the Mexican border along the Pacific for nearly 900 miles. It’s known for its dramatic terrain encompassing cliff-lined beaches, redwood forest, the Sierra Nevada […]
Model: Leila Depina
Nationality: Unknown Ethnicity: Cabo Verde, Africa. She speaks 3 languages: Portuguese, Spanish and English. Also beautiful with black hair Cape Verde, or Cabo Verde, is a nation on a volcanic archipelago off the northwest coast of Africa. It’s known for its Creole Portuguese-African culture and morna music. Its many beaches are jumping-off points for windsports […]
200 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 […]