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The Race of Beauty
There’s a growing trend for people to alter their ethnic features — from double eyelid surgery, to chin implants, to skin lightening or darkening. In some cases, patients undergoing such ethnic cosmetic surgery say they are doing so to achieve a more ‘western look’. Others say it has nothing to do with trying to look […]
Beauty Obsession -Venezuela
http://youtu.be/CkrKw8QQtqE Beauty in Colombia
Society Perception
http://youtu.be/os_KlRcXFH0
The Barbie Doll Test
This video program, produced by Modesto Junior College video producer Wes Page, documents an experiment by Professor Sam Pierstorff and his English 101 class. Small children are asked questions about Barbie dolls of different ethnicity. Shade This short TV documentary is an introduction to the issue of shadeism, the discrimination that exists between the lighter-skinned […]
Georges Melies – 1902 Film “A Trip to the Moon”
Narrated in English. This short 1902 film follows a group of astronomers on a trip to the moon. The first science fiction film and the first animation. I find this quite fascinating. We actually made something to this effect and literally landed on the moon, and to know something like this was considered Science Fiction which is now […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
Investing and mining planets?
http://news.discovery.com/space/mining-asteroids-not-mankinds-silver-bullet-yet-120424.html Since were using all of our resources on this planet, I guess this makes sense.
A Dutch Company Wants To Colonize Mars By 2023
http://youtu.be/n4tgkyUBkbY
Some people aren’t content with merely taking pictures on the surface of Mars–they want to plant their flag and colonize the red planet as soon as possible.
http://mars-one.com/en/about-mars-one/team
Intended for Global awareness.
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
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 […]
How it feels to have a stroke
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how […]
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
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
“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 […]
Creoles from New Orleans
First 5 minutes of documentary. The New Olreans Creole” by Maurice Martinez, PhD. The video can be purchased from: DOOR KNOB FILMS P. O. Box 16445 Wilmington, NC. 28408 The cost is $20 each plus $5 shipping and handling.
Kelly Gale
Juliana Imai
Nationality: Brazilian Ethnicity: Brazilian/Japanese Place of birth: Cruzeiro D’Oeste, Parana, Brasil http://youtu.be/9CtPzGXYwOQ http://youtu.be/CleyRmH8lMo
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 […]
Michael Michele
Nationality: American Ethnicity: African American and Caucasian Michael Michele has won acclaim for her portrayals of strong and capable women on television as well as in feature films. Born in Evansville, Indiana, on August 30, 1966, she, like practically everyone in the Hoosier State, grew up a big basketball fan. Michele played roundball […]
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
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
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 Genius Gene
The Genius Sperm Bank was created in the late 1970s by Robert Klark Graham, an American millionaire optometrist. Officially named the Repository for Germinal Choice, its aim was to breed highly intelligent people in order to save the world from genetic decline.Graham believed he could achieve this by getting clever men to donate sperm. To be […]