Before and After Spanish dancer Eduardo Cansino‘s daughter Margarita trained as a dancer from early childhood. At age 12, mature-looking Rita joined Eduardo’s stage […]
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Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams
Spanning sixty years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them. Through interviews and the personal recollections of Hollywood luminaries, Bogle pieces together a remarkable history that remains largely obscure to this day. We discover that […]
Salma Hayek aka Salma Valgarma Hayek-Jimenez
Is of Spanish and Lebanese descent, and fluent in Arabic, Spanish, Portugese and English. Studied international relations & drama at college in Mexico City. Father was born in Lebanon and came to Mexico to start a small business where he met her mother. Her Lebanese-Mexican father was a rich businessman and her mother was an […]
GasLand Documentary
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/613/index.html http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/ landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the “Saudi Arabia of natural gas.” Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called “fracking”.
Flash Dance actress Jennifer Beals
She is African-American and Irish Jennifer Sue Beals was born in Chicago on December 19, 1963 as the second child of Jeanne Anderson and Alfred Beals. Her mother, an Irish-Catholic retired elementary schoolteacher, still lives in Chicago. Her African-American father owned a grocery store on the South Side of Chicago where she spent the first […]
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN is A world famous Luxury Shoe Designer
His Parents/Family are from Cameroon, Africa. Mr. Louboutin was born in France. Celebrated for his vertiginously high stilettos with their signature lacquer-red soles, Louboutin has achieved cult status with celebrities as well as fashionistas. His eclectic and exotic designs, often incorporating feathers, beads, and sequins, are a constant and dramatic presence on the red carpet […]
Last Call at the Oasis – Water Documentary Movie
Firmly establishing the urgency of the global water crisis as the central issue facing our world this century, this documentary illuminates the vital role water plays in our lives, exposes the defects in the current system and shows communities already struggling with its ill-effects. Featuring activist Erin Brockovich, respected water experts including Peter Gleick, Jay […]
the business of being born
Better to give birth to your baby at the hospital…or in your home? Co-producer/star Ricki Lake initiated the filming of this eye-opening documentary–during which director Abby Epstein happened to become pregnant–to contrast the experiences of women who deliver their children in a hospital environment with those who complete their pregnancies at home with the assistance […]
Keeping Up Appearances
This Show is one of my favorite UK shows, it’s absolutely hilarious and entertaining. My mother and I used to watch this consistently. Storyline Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced “bouquet”) continually looks for opportunities to climb the social ladder, though she’s wedged on a rung just below her sister Violet (whose house has a swimming pool, sauna, and […]
Wonder Woman “Lynda Carter”
She is Mexican and Caucasian. She is quoted saying; I grew up in a house filled with music. My mother, who is of Mexican and Spanish descent, used to sing to my English-Irish father, and between the two of them I was introduced to a diverse array of music… Source: http://www.lyndacarter.com/lyndaherstory.html Her daughter Jessica Altman […]
Liu Wen photographed by Caroline Knopf
Liu Wen is a Chinese fashion model represented by The Society Management and based in New York City. She is the first model of East Asian descent to walk the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, the first spokes model of East Asian descent for Estée Lauder and the first Asian model to ever make Forbes magazine’s annual highest-paid models list. Liu Wen’s modeling career started at a modeling camp to help improve […]
Arlenis Sosa on the cover of BeN
Model: Jenny Boussaert
Brazilian Model: Adriana Lima
Nationality & Country of origin: Brazil Ethnicity: Swiss, African, Japanese and Native American Indian. Born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian-born model is of mixed ethnicity. In an interview on Fashion TV she stated that she is of Swiss, African and Native American heritage. While on another interview she mentioned that she also has Japanese heritage. […]
Gracie Carvahlo
Nationality and Place of birth: Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil Meet Gracie Carvalho, the newest Brazilian beauty turning heads and stealing shows all over the world. After debuting at the Rio and São Paulo fall fashion weeks in January of 2008, this 20-year-old newcomer caught the eyes of casting agents, and by the following June she was […]
Model: Gaye McDonald
Jordan Richardson
India through Oprah’s eyes
Model: Brandi Quinones
Model: Yasmeen Ghauri
Exotics at Victoria Secret Fashion Show – Vintage
Great runway walk and personalities *Tyra Banks *Naomi Campbell *Liya Kebede *Oluchi Onweagba *Alek Wek *Omahyra Mota
Michael Hansmeyer: Building unimaginable shapes
http://youtu.be/dsMCVMVTdn0
Top 10 African American Inventors
Model: Israela Avtau
Nationality and Place of birth: Israel Ethnicity: Ethiopian, African She won the Iaraeli Top Model competition at 16 years old. Article about Miss Avtau below: www.scribd.com/fullscreen She left Israel to seek a modelling career in New York. Israela signed a multi-million dollar deal with Avon Cosmetics in the US. She is the highest paid model after Bar […]
Anais Mali
Nationality:French Place of birth: Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France Ethnicity: Polish / Tchad
Born Rich:The One Percent Documentary
This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing “wealth gap” in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy®-nominated 2003 HBO documentary Born Rich, here sets his sights on exploring the political, […]
History, Hidden or Forgotten?
Hitler’s Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, Africans and African Americans During the Nazi Era. About the Author Clarence Lusane is Assistant Professor at the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. Drawing on interviews with the black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe, and […]
Elon Musk’s commercial space travel corporation
Elon Musk Profiled: Bloomberg Risk Takers ELON MUSK comes up with design ideas in the shower. That may be his only free time. In 2010, Tesla successfully IPO’d, and SpaceX became the first commercial company to recover a spacecraft from the Earth’s orbit. As a designer, Musk says, he tries “to imagine, from a physics standpoint, […]
11 Women Who Are Changing the Tech World
Jobs and economic escalation will follow as more women break through “glass walls” to start high-growth ventures. Where are all the women at in the startup world? If you read most articles about tech startup founders, you’re probably under the impression that only men create mobile apps and launch successful tech companies. Women only make […]
The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu
legendary Timbuktu and its long hidden legacy of hundreds of thousands of ancient manuscripts. With its university founded around the same time as Oxford.