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queen masenate mohato seeiso of lesotho

queen masenate mohato seeiso of lesotho

   Queen ‘Masenate Mohato Seeiso (born June 2, 1976) is the Queen Consort of King Letsie III of Lesotho. She was born as Anna Karabo Mots’oeneng in Mapoteng in the Berea District the eldest child of Thekiso Mots’oeneng and his wife ‘Makarabo. In 1990 Queen ‘Masenate enrolled at the Machabeng International College in Maseru and […]

Princess Sarah Culberson of the Mende family in Sierra Leone

Princess Sarah Culberson of the Mende family in Sierra Leone

   Sarah Culberson was adopted one year after her birth by a loving, white, West Virginian couple and was raised in the United States with little knowledge of her ancestry.  Though raised in a loving family, Sarah wanted to know more about the birth parents that had given her up. In 2004, she hired a […]

Royalty Peggielene Bartels

Royalty Peggielene Bartels

  King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed An African Village. The book chronicles how Peggielene Bartels went from being a secretary at Ghana’s Embassy in Washington, D.C to becoming African royalty of her late uncle’s village Otuam. Visit her official website on where to buy her book […]

The Baroness: Rebellious Rothschild

The Baroness: Rebellious Rothschild

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/22/hannah-rothschild-nica-jazz-thelonious-monk-interview    Book Description Part musical odyssey, part dazzling love story The Baroness traces Nica’s extraordinary, thrilling journey – from England’s stately homes to the battlefields of Africa, passing under the shadow of the Holocaust, and finally, to the creative ferment of New York’s 1950s jazz scene. From the Back Cover Rothschild by birth. Baroness by marriage. […]

Keys to the Castle

Keys to the Castle

Some of the most amazing castles and chateaux in France that are still lived in today. First up: Chateau de Brissac. Located in the beautiful countryside of France, this place has been dubbed the giant of the Loire Valley. It is home to the Marchioness of Brissac, Larissa, and her family, and it’s also a […]

Model: Peggy Dillard – Vintage

Model: Peggy Dillard – Vintage

Peggy became a model as the result of being a student, as she explains. Her career took off in a very uncanny way, without a portfolio or an agent. Preparing for shows as a student, she would visit many of the showrooms in the fashion district, and the designers would ask her to do their […]

Model interview: Ubah Hassan

Model interview: Ubah Hassan

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Model: Wanakee

Model: Wanakee

   Before Vera Wang became a national symbol for creativity and success, she was a talented and spirited fashion editor for Vogue Magazine. In 1981 she began featuring a new face in her glamorous editorial pages. Today artist Wanakee Pugh credits Ms. Wang for giving her a tremendous start that launched a successful twenty-year modeling […]

A Few Exotic Victoria’s Secret Models

A Few Exotic Victoria’s Secret Models

http://youtu.be/Oh6ROu6eC-8

*Tyra Banks
*Selita Ebanks
*Naomi Campbell
*Emanuela de Paula
*Oluchi Onweagba
*Chanel Iman
*Sessilee Lopez
*Noemie Lenoir
*Ajuma Nasenyana
*Arlenis Sosa Peña
*Aminata Niaria
*Jessica White
*Lyndsey Scott

Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch

She is Spanish Bolivian and English Actress, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She entered beauty contests as a teenager, and worked as a model, waitress, and television weather-girl before making her film debut in 1964. Launched as a sex symbol after her scantily clad appearance in One Million Years BC (1966), she was rarely challenged by later […]

Paula Patton

Paula Patton

She is African and German American or Dutch    Paula’s family lived across the street from the 20th Century Fox lot when she was growing up and she was a fan of films from her earliest years. Her mother, who also appreciated good films, was a schoolteacher, and her father was a lawyer. Study film at […]

The Human Stain: Wentworth Earl Miller III

The Human Stain: Wentworth Earl Miller III

The American actor is the star of the Television series Prison Break, playing Michael Scofield. He was born to a father of African-American, Jamaican, English, German, Jewish and Cherokee ancestry and a mother of Russian, French, Dutch, Lebanese and Syrian descent. Regarding his ethnicity and his experience with racism, he made the comment on an interview: “My […]

Rita Hayworth aka Margarita Carmen Cansino

Rita Hayworth aka Margarita Carmen Cansino

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 […]

Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams

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

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 […]

Flash Dance actress Jennifer Beals

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

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

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 […]

Beauty Nina Alu and Iggy Pop

Beauty Nina Alu and Iggy Pop

She is Nigerian and Irish.   Iggy Pop has been dating Ms. Alu for at least 10 years.They are now married.   Nina had originally planned to go into broadcast journalism.   Iggy is a songwriter who met Nina when she was a flight attendant.  

Keeping Up Appearances

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”

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    […]