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Tuskegee Airmen

In spite of adversity and limited opportunities, African Americans have played a significant role in U.S. military history over the past 300 years. They were denied military leadership roles and skilled training because many believed they lacked qualifications for combat duty. Before 1940, African Americans were barred from flying for the US military. Civil rights […]

Guinness Book Of World Records.15-Year Old Female Pilot Flies Cross Country.

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TEENS BUILDS THE WORLDS FIRST HYBRID SUPER CAR.

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reinvention-From homelessness to an executive suite.

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11 year old Entrepreneur

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National Chess Master

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CEO 6th Grader

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Homeless and Parent-less Student Graduates

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Self Made Millionaire

Afro American Farrah Gray made his first million when he was just 14. Now, he runs a successful portfolio of multiple profitable businesses, and is also a motivational and business public speaker. The lessons to learn from him is never give up, follow your dreams and to not let anything stop you from living up […]

1921-Black Wall Street – Unknown History

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Greenwood is a neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As one of the most successful and wealthiest African American communities in the United States during the early 20th Century, it was popularly known as America’s “Black Wall Street”.

SOUTH AFRICAN MILLIONAIRES

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As South Africa adopts affirmative action policies, we profile some of the blacks who have overcome racial inequality. Half of South Africa’s 30 million blacks live below the poverty line. Despite this depressing statistic, a few break the trend. Black millionaires! Having acquired his wealth during apartheid, businessman Richard Maponya is the richest black in the country. Emerging from his opulent villa he reflects on the turbulent times and his success in gatecrashing the horse racing set. Sam Tsima, winner of a 1988 study scholarship, is now the manager of the biggest bank in South Africa. Fighting for black rights, he teaches German twice a week to youngsters from Soweto. Many feel betrayed when rich blacks enjoy the spoils and move to wealthy suburbs. Yvonne Chaka-Chaka, singer and businesswoman, justifies her extravagant lifestyle as the result of dedication and hard work. Clapping and swaying to the music at a dinner-dance, she serenades the most successful of all black South Africans – Nelson Mandela.

Anais

Anais

Nationality: American Place of birth: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Anais (birth name Anais Martinez) She won a Casandra Award (which is the Dominican version of the Grammy’s) for “Most Outstanding Artist Located In Another Country”.    She attended The Door academy in New York where study dance and singing with Juanita Williams, who is a gospel and jazz […]

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 […]

Model & Beauty Queen: Leila Arcieri

Model & Beauty Queen: Leila Arcieri

Nationality: American Ethnicity:Her father is Italian and mother is African American. She was crowned Miss San Francisco in 1997.   Her mother worked for Lucasfilm. Her father is Italian and her mother is black.     Parents divorced when she was 2; she was raised by her mother.   Became a cheerleader in Junior High School to […]

Books and Documentary: Black Athena – Full version

Books and Documentary: Black Athena – Full version

Winner of the American Book Award and a Socialist Review Book Award What is classical about Classical Civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the whole basis of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. But these Afroasiatic influences […]

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 […]

Superficial Diversity

Mark Shriver briefly discusses his research efforts in the Department of Anthropology at Penn State University. Mr. Shriver Quote:  “I had the result for two or three years before I even looked up the ID number of the person whom we tested. I looked at who it was and it was me! I checked myself and […]

Prep School

André Lee, director of the documentary, The Prep School Negro–which explores the past and present experiences of students of color at elite prep schools–joined a panel of Williams students in discussion about his movie and their own experiences. The event was part of Claiming Williams. More about The Prep School Negro at: http://www.theprepschoolnegro.org/, about André […]

Applachia’s Melungeon

Applachia’s Melungeon

“There were a whole lot of people upset by this study,” lead researcher Roberta Estes said. “They just knew they were Portuguese, or Native American.” In recent decades, interest in the origin of the Melungeons has risen dramatically with advances both in DNA research and in the advent of Internet resources that allow individuals to […]

phyllis hyman

phyllis hyman

Nationality and Ethnicity: African American Deep-voiced and statuesque, Phyllis Hyman sang with a life-affirming energy and emotional intensity found in few other female vocalists. Born in Philadelphia in 1949 (and raised in Pittsburgh), her professional career began in New York City where, during an engagement, she was spotted by producer Norman Connors and contemporaries Jean Carne and Roberta Flack, among […]