Miss France 2003: Corinne Coman, a 19-year-old engineering student from Guadeloupe in the French West Indies, accepts her crown as Miss France 2003 from last year’s Miss France, Sylvie Tellier, during the recent competition in Lyon, France. It was the first time a young woman from Guadeloupe has won the event since 1993, event organizers […]
Louisiana’s Creole
Many Creoles, however, are descendants of French colonials who fled Saint-Domingue (Haiti) for North America’s Gulf Coast when a slave insurrection (1791) challenged French authority. According to Thomas Fiehrer’s essay “From La Tortue to La Louisiane: An Unfathomed Legacy,” Saint-Dominque had more than 450,000 black slaves, 40,000 to 45,000 whites, and 32,000 gens-decouleur libres, who […]
Model: Stephanie Bertram Rose
Nationality: Belgian. Ethnicity: Mother is Portuguese & Senegalese, African and her father is Caucasian. She Speaks French and English. Ms. Rose is 5’7 ft tall with green eyes. “I’m from Belgium. I grew up in the Dutch part and then, when I turned 11, we moved to just next to Ghent to a place called Deinze. […]
One-drop rule by Harvard Gazette
So say Harvard University psychologists, who’ve found that we still tend to see biracials not as equal members of both parent groups, but as belonging more to their minority parent group. The research appears in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. ‘One-drop rule’ persists | Harvard Gazette Slavery has occurred in many forms throughout […]
Hatshepsut was a female pharaoh during the New Kingdom in Egypt
Twenty years after her death, somebody smashed her statues, took a chisel and attempted to erase the pharaoh’s name and image from history. But who did it? And why? Kate Narev investigates Hatshepsut’s history for clues to this ancient puzzle. A daughter of King Thutmose I, Hatshepsut became queen of Egypt when she married her […]
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Miss France: Chloé Mortaud
Chloé Mortaud (September 19, 1989, born in Lisieux, Calvados) is a French beauty pageant contestant and actress who won Miss France 2009. She represented the Albigeois-Midi-Pyrénées, a southwest region of France, and became the first winner of the Miss France beauty pageant to have dual citizenship, French and American. Mortaud received US citizenship through her […]
The Josephine Baker Story
Nationality: French Place of birth: United States Josephine Baker was a dancer and singer who became wildly popular in France during the 1920s. She also devoted much of her life to fighting racism. http://youtu.be/1ERRdzWK3XY In the 1920s she moved to France and soon became one of Europe’s most popular and highest-paid performers. She worked for […]
Miss America: Nina Davuluri
Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014, is the first Indian American to be chosen as Miss America and the first to perform a Bollywood dance on the Miss America stage. http://youtu.be/oYqmbGtRSJI
Vanessa Williams the First Black Miss America
In 1983, Vanessa Williams made history when she was crowned the first African-American Miss America. Entertainer Vanessa Lynn Williams was born on March 18, 1963, in Bronx, New York. Williams’s parents, Milton and Helen, both worked as music educators. Though she thought she might place in the top 10, Williams didn’t think it would go […]
Jennifer Lopez ft Iggy Azalea American Music Awards
For a 45 year old mother of 2 – I must say, she looks Amazing! I like to see women take care of them selves and not use the excuse of aging or marriage to let them selves go. http://youtu.be/aNiTX9VgkhY This woman is beautiful and obviously works hard. Lets not forget she’s a professional dancer […]
Miss World: Jennifer Hosten
First black woman to win the Miss World Contest. She was born in St. George’s, Grenada. She was 22 when she won the Miss World contest. Jennifer Hosten won the Miss World 1970 contest, representing Grenada. She became the first woman from her country to win the title. Her winning made a complete outrage among […]
Miss World: Agbani Darego
In November that year, she became the first black African citizen, and the second black woman overall (after Jennifer Hosten), to claim the Miss World title (Although past winners such as Penelope Coelen and Anneline Kriel are South African, they are of European descent, and Antigone Costanda, who represented Egypt in 1954 is of Greek […]
DONNA SUMMER
Donna Summer rocketed to international super-stardom in the mid-1970s when her groundbreaking merger of R&B, soul, pop, funk, rock, disco and avant-garde electronica catapulted underground dance music out of the clubs of Europe to the pinnacles of sales and radio charts around the world. In addition to her recording and performing career, Summer is an […]
Paula Abdul – Cold Hearted Snake
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 about her nationality and/or religion. Source: Paula Abdul – Biography – […]
Pebbles
Nationality & Ethnicity: African American Singer I love the male model/dancer in this video. http://youtu.be/gNzgnaj4zps
Mary Jane Girls
The Mary Jane Girls were brought together by Rick James in 1979, hired as back-up singers for his tour. It is believed that with the formation of rival Prince’s sexy new girl group Vanity 6 in 1982, James wished to compete with his own sexy quartet. http://vimeo.com/18129079
Blondie Rapping
This music video was the first rap video ever broadcast on MTV. In January 1981, “Rapture” was released as the second and final single from the album. The song reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it stayed for two weeks. The song peaked at #4 in Australia and #5 in the United […]
MAHOGANY full movie ft. Diana Ross
Mahogany stars Diana Ross as Tracy Chambers, a poor African-American woman who rises to become a popular fashion designer in Rome. She has worked her way up from salesgirl to secretary and assistant to the head buyer at a luxury department store (modeled after, and filmed at, Marshall Field’s on State Street, Chicago). Her boyfriend […]
Miss Brazil: Deise Nunes
The crowning of the first Miss Brazil that has Black features has stirred up feelings … After 18-year-old Deise Nunes de Souza beat out a bevy of blonde-haired, … Jet – Aug 4, 1986 – Page 29 – Google Books Result Brazil’s population includes the largest number of people of African descent in the entire […]
Yves Saint Laurent
Detox baths and their effects
My personal beauty tips: If you can’t get an appointment or just don’t have the time, Home Spas are great! I personally use Dead Sea Salt from the Middle East. It’s great for baths. (It’s between Israel and Jordan, which lies some 1,300 feet (400 meters) below sea level—the lowest elevation and the lowest body […]
Naomi Campbell
Michael Jackson- In The Closet
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Lucky David Bowie
I usually don’t post art nudes, but my goodness this was shot in such good taste that I had to make an exception. All I see is the beauty alone in this Photo. The photographer is a true artist and Iman is the ultimate muse. David Bowie is one of the a luckiest man in […]
Tyra Banks Interviews Naomi Campbell
Queen of Qatar
Why You’ve Never Heard of the World’s Best-Dressed Royal … Her style below has a Jakie Onassis feel to it. I really love this look. My mother was great with wrapping her hair, even though I never tried it my self. It seems to fit a certain type of face. African/ African descent women tend […]
