Posts tagged African American
Beauty Queen: Miss USA Kara Mccullough
Kára Deidra McCullough is an American beauty pageant titleholder and a physical scientist at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. McCullough was born in Naples, Italy to Betty Ann Parker and Artensel E. McCullough Sr. Her father was a member of the United States Navy for 23 years, and McCullough thus lived in various places such as Sicily, […]
Read MoreModel: Tyra Banks
Nationality: American Ethnicity: African descent Tyra Lynne Banks is an American television personality, producer, businesswoman, actress, author, former model and occasional singer. Born in Inglewood, California, she began her career as a model at age 15, and was the first African American woman to be featured on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, on which she […]
Read MoreModel: Kirby Griffin
Nationality: Georgia, American Ethnicity: African American She stands at 5’9 Ft tall with green eyes. Griffin was discovered in Miami Beach while vacationing. She joined IMG Models in New York City and has appeared in a multitude of advertising campaigns throughout magazines, billboards, storefronts, websites, music videos, and television commercials around the world. After attending […]
Read MoreModel & Former Professional Basketball Player: Cole Woods
Nationality: American Ethnicity: African descent Ms. Woods is a 6 ‘2 Ft tall. A international runway & print model currently based in Los Angeles, California. She have shot in Egypt, Africa, Jamaica, Caribbean, Cape Town, South Africa etc. Modeling agency: Angeles ?? Twenty Model Management Cape Town. Runway: BET Experience Fashion Show. Art Hearts Fashion […]
Read MoreModel: Jourdana Elizabeth
Nationality: (Garland, Texas) American Ethnicity: African descent She is 5’10 Ft tall. You will see this beauty at the Victoria Secret Fashion Show in Paris, France. Since Victoria’s Secret is staging their fashion show in Paris this year, it was safe to say the stakes were higher than ever for the casting of the biggest runway […]
Read MoreBlack women are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S.
Black women are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. They own 1.5 million businesses between them, up 322% since 1997. Their companies generate $44 billion a year. –keoneulaes.org So why is no one investing in their startups? Why have black women received only .2% of all venture funding in the past five years? […]
Read MoreWhy do Africans & African descendants pour liquor onto the floor in honor of the dead?
Cultural Similarities: Libation was part of ancient Egyptian society where it was a drink offering to honor and please the various divinities, sacred ancestors, humans present and not present, as well as the environment. It is suggested that libation originated somewhere in the upper Nile Valley and spread out to other regions of Africa and […]
Read MoreGreat Olympic Athlete: Simone Arianne Biles
Nationality: American Ethnicity: African descent Biles is the 2016 Olympic individual all-around, vault and floor gold medalist. She was part of the gold medal-winning team dubbed the “Final Five” at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She also won the bronze medal for the balance beam during the Olympics. Biles is a three-time […]
Read MoreModel & Actress: Cherina Montenique
Nationality: (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) American. Ethnicity: French mestizo & African descent. She is 5’10 Ft Tall. Cherina a perfect face for the advertising campaigns , particularly for makeup. ” Revlon ” has understood this and that is why she has become one of the brand faces. The model is also praised by other cosmetics brands such […]
Read MoreAfrican Descendants Around The World
“A picture is worth a thousand words” is an English idiom. It refers to the notion that a complex idea can be conveyed with just a single still image or that an image of a subject conveys its meaning or essence more effectively than a description does. Pakistan In pictures: Pakistan’s indigenous African community news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia […]
Read MoreAMERICAN FOUNDING FATHERS
Lost or forgotten History U.S. Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African-American to serve as a state senator, representing Mississippi in 1870. Blacks And The Founding Father – PBS ‘Glenn Beck’: Founders’ Friday: African-American Founders … Reconstruction and Beyond: The 8 African-American Senators America’s Black Founders: Revolutionary Heroes & Early … History books are […]
Read MoreThe changing face of America
The newest generation of Americans is the most diverse ever, with half belonging to a race or ethnic minority group other than “non-hispanic white,” according to the latest U.S. Census data. Wall Street Journal By the year 2040, the majority of Americans will be people of color – the minorities will have become the majority. […]
Read MoreFormer NASA Astronaut & The Current Chief Administrator of NASA: Charlie F. Bolden
Before becoming the head of NASA, Bolden was an astronaut who flew into space four times. He commanded two space shuttle missions. Bolden has worked both for the government and for private companies. He is a retired United States Marine Corps Major General. He is also the first African-American to be appointed NASA administrator. NASA’s Bolden: Mars […]
Read MorePresident of the United States: Barack Obama with Family
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician serving as the 44th President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office, as well as the first president born outside of the continental United States. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, born in Wichita, Kansas, was of mostly English ancestry.His father, […]
Read MoreHomeland Security Secretary: Jeh Charles Johnson
Mr. Johnson is an African American civil and criminal trial lawyer, and the current United States Secretary of Homeland Security since 2013 . He was the General Counsel of the Department of Defense from 2009 to 2012 during the first Obama Administration. Johnson’s first name is taken from a Liberian chief, who reportedly saved his grandfather’s […]
Read MoreBallet Dancer Misty Copeland
Nationality: Kansas City, MO, American Ethnicity: African descent. She was also a featured dancer for Prince. American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States. A strong body can also be beautiful-Sola On June 30, 2015, Copeland became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal […]
Read MoreModel: Devan Nykole
Nationality: American Ethnicity: African descent. She has gray-green eyes. I would like to see this young woman more often in the fashion and acting world. This photo above is just captivating and I had to share it with the rest of you. View her photos and videos below. From The Ground Up VFILES | Devan Nykole […]
Read MoreModel & Actress: Tierra Benton
Nationality: (Gainesville, Georgia) American Ethnicity: African descent. At the age of 13, she won her first modeling contest. Ms. Benton is a honor graduate of Georgia State University . She is a New York based model & is 6’2 ft tall. Quote: Around thirteen, I was reintroduced to my childhood dream. I signed with my first agency […]
Read MoreModel: Sara Naomi
Nationality: American Ethnicity: African descent She is 5’11 ft tall. For more Photos go to> farabale.co Photographer: Elvis Piedra Hair Stylist: Shawnese McDaniel Makeup Artisit: Eye am Beauty Model: Sara Naomi with Ursula Wiedmann Models Visiting Egypt, Africa Egypt, a country linking northeast Africa with the Middle East, dates to the time of the pharaohs. […]
Read MoreIncredible Human Journey Out Of Africa
Dr. Alice Roberts travels the globe to discover the incredible story of how humans left Africa to colonise the world — overcoming hostile terrain, extreme weather and other species of human. She pieces together precious fragments of bone, stone and new DNA evidence and discovers how this journey changed these African ancestors into the people […]
Read MoreModel: 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 […]
Read MoreModel, 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 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 […]
Read MoreActress: 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 […]
Read MoreInside 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 […]
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 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 MoreOrphan from Africa now an aspiring ballerina
Michaela DePrince is a professional ballerina currently with the Dance Theatre of Harlem company, who was adopted as a young child from Africa by a US family.
Read MoreShould we focus on social equality instead of gene pools?
Let’s Move On From Race by Jonathan Marks http://www.mesacc.edu/dept/d10/asb/origins/hominid_journey/modernorigins.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120820152204.htm
Read MoreGeneticists Uncover the Origin of Blue Eyes
http://occupycorporatism.com/blue-eyes-originated-10000-years-ago-in-the-black-sea-region/ Blue Eyes Originated 10,000 Years Ago in the Black Sea Region http://www.springerlink.com/content/2045q6234h66p744/fulltext.html Blue eye color in humans may be caused by a perfectly associated founder mutation in a regulatory element located within the HERC2 gene inhibiting OCA2 expression
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