Nationality: Guadeloupéenne, Caribbean Ethnicity: Mix Heritage Ms. Herbeth is 5’9 Ft tall, with green eyes and dark blonde hair. She speaks English & French. This beauty has been in international magazines like Women’s health, Elle, Glamour, Cosmopolitan and modeled for H & M, Desigual, Esprit & Fabio Salsa to name a few. The turning point came about […]
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Nationality: American Ethnicity: Haitian, African Descent. She stands at 5’10 Ft tall with hazel eyes. Currently in Miami, Florida. A beautiful young lady. We would like to see her more often in the Fashion Industry. AURELIE WULFF — Novvo Model Management Help Haiti after Hurricane Matthew. Please donate what you can, the smallest donation will make […]
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Nationality: American Ethnicity: Caucasian Father, Native American Indian & African descent mother. Currently in College. Casey, from Florida, shares her story and feelings about how people gave her a hard time because they didn’t see her as the ethnicities she was and how her most important identity is her personal identity beyond race or ethnicity. […]
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De Blasio and his wife, activist and poet Chirlane McCray, met while both were working for Mayor Dinkins’ administration and married in 1994. They lived in Park Slope, Brooklyn before moving into Gracie Mansion, the traditional residence of New York City mayors. They have two children: Dante, a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School currently attending Yale […]
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Adélina Soulouque (b. c. 1795-after 1859), née Lévêque, was Empress Consort of Haiti from 1849 until 1859, as wife of Faustin I of Haiti. Adélina was the daughter of Marie Michel Lévêque, a Haitian of mixed-race heritage. She had a long-term relationship with Faustin Souloque for many years. It was only in December 1849 that […]
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Unknown, Forgotten or Accidentally left out of your history books by mistake. This book is about 30 million people scattered across an arc of islands — Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua, Martinique, Trinidad, among others-separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, but joined together, nevertheless, by a common heritage. For whether French, English, Dutch, […]
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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 […]
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Nationality: British Ethnicity: Bi-racial German And Brazilian. She is also multilingual with the ability to speak Portuguese, German and English. Ms. Stark is 5’8 1/2 tall with blue eyes. Tainá von Stark is an international model born in the beautiful country of Brazil. Blessed with exotic features and mesmerizing light blue eyes, the 5’8 beauty […]
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Nationality: French Ethnicity: African (Ghana) mother and French father. She speaks French and English. Catherine Decome, alias CAT Decome is a french model. She entered The Elite Model Look France contest in 2006. Among all the women who participated in this Elite look international contest, Ms. Decome was voted in the top 15 international models, […]
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Nationality: American Ethnicity: Caribbean Hispanic/Afro-Latina Her father is of Dominican descent and her mother is Greek/Puerto Rican. A Brooklyn native, Vasi signed to Ford Models at the age of 12. Quote: For modeling they said I was too tiny, I wasn’t Caucasian enough, I wasn’t African enough, I wasn’t Latina enough. They kept saying no but I kept moving […]
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Nationality: American Ethnicity: African decent father and (Jewish) Caucasian mother. Lacey Schwartz, a 37-year-old Harvard Law School graduate turned filmmaker, moves with ease in circles in which her identity as both black and Jewish seems unremarkable. What makes her biography striking is that Ms. Schwartz, a woman with light brown skin and a cascade […]
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A mulatto is defined as: the first general offspring of a black and white parent; or, an individual with both white and black ancestors. Generally, mulattoes are light-skinned, though dark enough to be excluded from the white race. Several years ago, Jobling’s team found that more than a quarter of British African-Caribbean men have a […]
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Many Creoles, however, are descendants of French colonials who fled Saint-Domingue (Haiti) for North America’s Gulf Coast when a slave insurrection (1791) challenged French authority. According to Thomas Fiehrer’s essay “From La Tortue to La Louisiane: An Unfathomed Legacy,” Saint-Dominque had more than 450,000 black slaves, 40,000 to 45,000 whites, and 32,000 gens-decouleur libres, who […]
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