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oil war

http://youtu.be/cbaYwXZrpds The militants want a share of Nigeria’s vast oil wealth. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/48399148 w=500&h=281]

Bull Runners of Pamplona

http://youtu.be/8Wpx4brU978

The French in Algeria

What is fuelling the anger?

attacks are among the highest in the world http://youtu.be/3L0olJLPGZk The UNITED NATIONS has instructed Australia to remove the N word from public signage and general official use in its government and general societie. But Australians blanche at the idea. They refuse to give up their ‘right’ to call any non white a N.

Vintage Monaco Fashion Show

Super Security For The Super Rich

The world’s billionaires are becoming more concerned for their personal safety and the security of their families. This has led to a high tech, high cost industry aimed at keeping the mega rich safe and secure. CNBC gives viewers rare access to eye-popping security measures from million dollar panic rooms built to withstand bullets, bombs […]

A Choice Between School and Silicon Valley

Harvard student Connor Zwick thinks he can build the ultimate online educational tool. If he wins a Thiel Fellowship, he’ll have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to make that dream a reality. But should he really leave the Ivy League to launch a start-up?

Ripping Off the Rich

Did you know the world’s most valued treasures are vanishing in a multibillion-dollar black market business? From artwork and counterfeit wine to valuable pieces of history — we’ll take you inside the business that is ‘Ripping off the Rich.’ Bad is Big Business – Crime Inc.

Brands target nouveau poor

Record high unemployment in the EU has forced some of the larger consumer goods companies to shift marketing strategies. They target poverty-stricken Europeans’ demand for cheaper goods in the midst of an economic crisis –

Building the Oil Rigs

It has one of the world’s highest per capita GDP’s and is a global player in exports, in biotechnology and in tourism. http://youtu.be/b1igNMSU2JI

Science: Chinese African Ancestors

An international study has found that the Chinese people originated not from Peking Man in northern China, but from early humans in East Africa who moved through South Asia to China some 100,000 years ago, Hong Kongs Ming Pao daily reported yesterday in a finding that confirms the single origin theory in anthropology.

African Russian Perspective

http://youtu.be/3LqEFkadXjQ

Afro-Russians Trailer

Black Russians is a feature length documentary that investigates the lives of contemporary Afro-Russians aged 10 to 65, born and raised in Soviet Russia. Their experiences chronicle two ideological currents that have shaped major international events in the twentieth century: race and communism. Intimate interviews with a poet, a film producer, a reggae artist, a […]

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multi-ethnic people

Chinese Reclassified as Black in South Africa

 

Chinese influence in Africa

http://youtu.be/LfOA2_2MORI The influence of China in Africa is growing as it partners with many nations, often to secure much-needed resources. Kate Evans filed this report from Guinea, one country cashing in on an old friend with new money.

Economic Boom Angola

http://youtu.be/lT8J9cdmm5g http://youtu.be/QkjH_0wKPfo Angola has emerged as one of the leading destinations for Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) into the African continent. The end of the civil war and the subsequent discovery of oil reserves has helped the Angolan economy at an unprecedented rate. We bring you excerpts from an informal interview with Carina Kiala, representative of […]

Angola – The Rise of a Colony | Global 3000

Until 1975, Angola was a Portuguese colony. Independence was followed by a lengthy civil war, which left the country in ruins. Now the tables have turned, and the former colony has become a booming economy and job engine for its former colonial master. 100,000 Portuguese have emigrated to Angola since the eurozone crisis began. The […]

Angolans invest in Portugal’s sinking banks

Once Angola was an impoverished part of the Portuguese empire, now its oil wealth means its citizens are queuing to buy everything from vineyards to property in the former colonial power.

Portuguese seek jobs in former colonies

Portugal has been hit hard by Europe’s economic crisis, with its economy continuing to shrink and unemployment still rising.

Sara Nuru German Top Model

Sara Nuru German Top Model

Nationality: German Place of birth: Erding, Germany Ethnicity: Ethiopian She was the winner of the fourth cycle of Germany’s Next Top Model   The family lived in Erding until 1999 before they moved to Munich. Nuru is fluent in German, English and Arabic. She also speaks a little bit of Amharic.    Sara Nuru was born as the […]

Miss Universe Tanzania: flaviana matata

Miss Universe Tanzania: flaviana matata

Amazing beauty from Tanzania Flaviana was the first bald woman to compete in a beauty pageant, defying the notion of beauty. Her star started shining when she rose to international fame in 2007 after she won the Miss Universe Tanzania title and became the first woman to represent her country in Miss Universe.   Her […]

Model: Fatima Siad

Model: Fatima Siad

Nationality: American Ethnicity: Somali and Ethiopian Fatima Siad raised in Boston, Massachusetts, she placed third on America’s Next Top Model, Cycle 10. Personnel Quote: Be Comfortable in your Own Skin And You Won’t Hate on Others in Theirs Personal Quotes: I don’t want to be known as ‘Baby Iman.  I want to make a name for myself.    […]

Brazilian Model: Daniela Braga

Brazilian Model: Daniela Braga

Nationality: Brazilian    Brazil has an indigenous Indian population of around 450,000, comprising more than 200 peoples who speak more than 180 different languages. According to the National Foundation for the Indian (FUNAI) the indigenous population has been growing at a rate of more than 3.5% per year and is now four times greater than in […]

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 […]

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 […]

Michael Michele

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 […]

The Genius Gene

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 […]

South African Royalty: Tsidii Le Loka

South African Royalty: Tsidii Le Loka

  Tsidii Le Loka was studying economics and music at the University of Massachusetts when she got a call to come to New York and audition for “The Lion King.” Not only did she get the part of Rafiki, but she went on to receive a Tony nomination for her work. It was a defining […]