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Inside America’s Black Upper Class

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 […]

Brazilian Actress and Model: Ildi Silva

Brazilian Actress and Model:  Ildi Silva

Nationality: Brazilian Place of birth: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.     Brazilians are of mixed heritage   Trade Mark: Her green eyes Brazil officially the Federative Republic of Brazil is the largest country in both South America and theLatin American region.    It is the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world, and the only one in the Americas. […]

Brazilian Actress & Model: Débora Nascimento

Brazilian 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.  https://youtu.be/Hu4kzd5WMeY?t=14s https://youtu.be/w2mdM7JoBGM Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. […]

Secret Lives of the Super Rich: Mega-Homes

When some of the richest people on earth want to sell their homes they turn to Dolly: The eight billion dollar woman. She’s gained the trust of the rich and famous and her knowledge of their secret lives helped her move over $8 Billion in high-end real estate. Now she’s revealing all, from the new […]

Model: Fatima Siad

Model: Fatima Siad

Nationality: American Ethnicity: Somali and Ethiopian Fatima Siad raised in Boston, Massachusetts, she placed third on America’s Next Top Model, Cycle 10. Personnel Quote: Be Comfortable in your Own Skin And You Won’t Hate on Others in Theirs Personal Quotes: I don’t want to be known as ‘Baby Iman.  I want to make a name for myself.    […]

model and Columbia University student Carolyn Giles

model and Columbia University student Carolyn Giles

Nationality: American Place of birth: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA Ethnicity: Japanese / French / Belgian / English http://www.businessinsider.com/model-carolyn-giles-is-suing-volvo-for-making-her-look-like-an-escort-2012-8        

Xiao Wen Ju

Xiao Wen Ju

Place of birth: China Xiao Wen Ju (born May 19, …., in Xi’an, Shaanxi, China) is a professional fashion model who is considered one of the Chinese supermodels. She tried her luck in Europe during the F/W 11 season, and had a great start in New York, Paris, and Milan.    She has walked the […]

Stacey Dash

Stacey Dash

Nationality: American Place of birth: Bronx, New York, US Ethnicity: Mexican and Afro-Bajan descent. Stacey Dash was born in the Bronx, New York. Stacy knew that she wanted to act, and from an early age began to act professionally. She made regular appearances on “The Cosby Show” (1984), “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” (1990), and also “St. Elsewhere”(1982). At 22 she […]

Sheron Menezes – Brazilian Actress

Sheron Menezes – Brazilian Actress

Nationality: Brazilian Place of birth: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil   The actress starred in the TV Globo soap opera Esperança in April 2002 with the approval of the director Luiz Fernando Carvalho who was impressed with his test and suggested to the author, Benedito Ruy Barbosa, the changing age of the character, Julia, oldest first, so it could […]

Unfortunately A Common Assumption – Read this article

Thankfully through science and technology, Archaeologists have revealed the remains of what they say was a “high status” woman of African origin who lived in York during Roman times. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/8538888.stm Roman remains in York are ‘elite’ African woman

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

Nationality: American Place of birth: San Francisco, California Ethnicity: Syrian and German American Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs was an American businessman, designer and inventor. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56. […]

sade

sade

Nationality: British Birth Name:  Helen Folasade Adu Birth Place: Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Ethnicity: English and Yoruba Nigerian the British singer Sade Adu, was born to an English Mother and a Yoruba Nigerian Father. She was born in Nigeria and lived there until she was four was 4 years old.   http://youtu.be/KWy3X7f4MyY   Source: http://www.sade.com/gb/biography/ http://youtu.be/Jg7OgfFkkGA  

Selena Quintanilla

Selena Quintanilla

Nationality: American Place of birth: Lake Jackson, Texas. U.S. Ethnicity: Mexican and Native American Cherokee Selena Quintanilla-Pérez (April 16, 1971 – March 31, 1995), known simply as Selena, was an American singer-songwriter. She was named the “top Latin artist of the ’90s” and “Best selling Latin artist of the decade” by Billboard for her fourteen top-ten singles in the Top […]

Juliana Imai

Juliana Imai

Nationality: Brazilian Ethnicity: Brazilian/Japanese Place of birth: Cruzeiro D’Oeste, Parana, Brasil     http://youtu.be/9CtPzGXYwOQ     http://youtu.be/CleyRmH8lMo

Salli Richardson

Salli Richardson

Nationality: American Ethnicity: African American/Native American (Cherokee) and Caucasian (English/Italian).   http://youtu.be/mUKuMOqQ90o Salli Elise Richardson was born November 23, 1967, in Chicago, Illinois. Salli’s acting career was first nurtured in the theater. Her first feature performance was in 1991 as “Denise” in Up Against the Wall (1991). However, her breakthrough role was in 1993’s How U Like Me […]

kristen wilson

kristen wilson

Nationality: American Ethnicity: Unknown, she’s adopted.   Kristen Wilson was born and raised in Massachusetts where she trained as a dancer and performed with the Boston Ballet for four years. She received her BFA degree in musical theatre from Syracuse University. Taking time out in her junior year to take part in a national tour of […]

Lead Dancer “Darcel Wynne” of solid gold

Lead Dancer “Darcel Wynne” of solid gold

Nationality and Ethnicity: African American   African-American stunner Darcel Wynne was born on June 13, 1953 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Darcel moved to Hollywood, California as a teenager and got her first professional television dancing gig at age fourteen (she lied about her age and claimed she was eighteen in order to get this particular job). […]

The Richest Person In The World

Carlos Slim Helu doesn’t believe in handouts. He’s got another approach to improving people’s lives. The 2012 Forbes Billionaires list: http://www.forbes.com/billionaires

Chrishell Stubbs

Chrishell Stubbs

Nationality: British Place of birth: Turks and Caicos Islands Ethnicity: Caribbean / British                 

South African Royalty: Tsidii Le Loka

South African Royalty: Tsidii Le Loka

  Tsidii Le Loka was studying economics and music at the University of Massachusetts when she got a call to come to New York and audition for “The Lion King.” Not only did she get the part of Rafiki, but she went on to receive a Tony nomination for her work. It was a defining […]

Princess Esther Kamatari of Burundi

Princess Esther Kamatari of Burundi

     Princess Esther Kamatari, 60 is a writer, model, and exiled Burundian princess. Esther Kamatari grew up in Burundi as a member of the royal family. Following independence in 1962, the king was overthrown in a military coup d’etat, and the monarchy abolished in 1966. Kamatari fled the country in 1970 after her father’s […]

Princess Elizabeth Bagaaya of Toro

Princess Elizabeth Bagaaya of Toro

   Lawyer, diplomat, politician, and actress are all accomplishments that Princess Elizabeth has under her belt. She was the first female from East Africa to be admitted to the English Bar after studying at Cambridge. She then became Uganda’s first female lawyer as well as serving briefly as the Foreign Minister of Affairs under Idi […]

Princess Keisha Omilana of Nigeria

Princess Keisha Omilana of Nigeria

   A former model, spokesperson, and actress, Omilana adds brains to beauty as a businesswoman. The Inglewood, California native started Wonderful Brand, a multifaceted business incorporating fashion, television and Web, with her husband, Kunle, a Nigerian prince. Known as the “Pantene Girl,” Omilana is cited as the first African American woman to be featured in three consecutive […]

Prince Maximillian of Liechtenstein and his wife Princess Angela and their son Alfons…

Prince Maximillian of Liechtenstein and his wife Princess Angela and their son Alfons…

Princess Angela of Liechtenstein: Born in Panama, Princess Angela Gisela Brown married Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein in 2000. This Afro-Latina beauty grew up in New York City and attended Parsons School of Design, where she won the coveted Oscar de la Renta Gold Thimble Award for fashion design.  As a designer, Princess Angela worked with […]

Taboo: A few Historical and fiction films

Taboo: A few Historical and fiction films

http://youtu.be/XNUPpSLLLpQ

Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression.

Mick Jagger and Marsha Hunt

Mick Jagger and Marsha Hunt

Mick Jagger and Marsha Hunt met in 1970 when she was approached to pose for a promotional photo for “Honky Tonk Women.” The two had a daughter together, Karis, and both have been closely involved in her life.   “Brown Sugar” is a song by The Rolling Stones. It is the opening track and lead […]