Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Helen Marie Williams Jackson (September 16, 1935 – July 26, 2023) was an American fashion model, and one of the first African American models to be featured in mainstream publications of her time. Career
Patricia Cleveland (born June 23, 1950) is an American fashion model who initially attained success in the 1960s and 1970s and was one of the first African-American models within the fashion industry to achieve prominence as a runway model and print model.
Marsha A. Hunt – African-American model, singer, novelist, and actress. Beverley Heath Hoyland – Jamaican-British model and businesswoman. Whitney Houston - second African-American model to appear on the cover of Seventeen (November 1981) and first black singer to appear on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar (January 1996).
Annemarie Margot Elfreda "Sunny" Harnett (1924 – May 1987) was an American model, actress, [1] and casting director. [2] She can be found in fashion magazines throughout the 1950s, including frequently on the cover of Vogue, and was often a model of choice by photographer Edgar de Evia.
Europe at the time was seen as more accepting of white-passing Black models, such as Ophelia Devore, who had modeled herself and had her own agency's models working in Paris, or Dorothea Church in the 1950s and unmistakably African-American models like Dolores Francine Rhiney , who was the first Black model to walk on the European catwalk.
Carter Goodwin Woodson (1875-1950), African-American historian. Bettmann - Getty Images In case you didn’t already know, the creator of Black History Month was historian Carter G. Woodson.
The first African-American Playmate of the Month was Jennifer Jackson, who appeared in the March 1965 issue. The first African-American Playmate of the Year was Renee Tenison in 1990. Darine Stern was the first African-American model featured on the cover of Playboy magazine by herself (Oct. 1971), but she was never a playmate.
Allure Magazine has made some enemies after featuring step-by-step instructions for how white girls can achieve an "Afro." To break it down, "Afro" comes from the word "African." So for Allure ...