"Heat" By Andy Warhol

Set of "Heat": Sylvia Miles and Joe Dallesandro by Andy Warhol Date: ca 1972. Image: The Andy Warhol Foundation.

PHOTO-OP: Melba Moore

Singer/Actress Melba Moore poses nude. ca. 1971. Image: Jack Robinson/Conde Nast Archive.

"Entangled" By Etienne George

Actress Laurence Treil on the set of "Entangled"  (La Montre, la croix et la manière), directed by Max Fisher. The movie is based on "Les Veufs" written by Pierre Boileau and Pierre Ayraud aka Thomas Narcejac. Image: Etienne George. Location: Paris, France. Date:1991

PHOTO-OP: Actress Jane Fonda

Actress Jane Fonda by Just Jacklin. circa 1970

Portrait: A Malian Child Eating

A malian child eating from a wooden bowl in Mali, June 01, 2004. Image: Terra Collection

Model Of The Week: Mbathio Beye

Mbathio Beye, 21, from Senegal was last month named the first ever Miss Black France among controversies that the pageant was "stupid," "dangerous" and "hostile." However, Beye was officially named the first "Miss Black France" last month in Paris, after being selected from a pool of 1,000 applicants.

Nigerian Jungle Blues: Trans Amadi Slaughter House

A young man carries an animal carcass through the Trans-Amadi Slaughter, the main abbatoir of Port Harcourt.


A butcher cuts up a cow carcass amidst a pool of blood and guts, at the Trans-Amadi Slaughter, the main abbatoir of Port Harcourt. At the slaughter, animals are killed in the open, their blood spilt into the waterways below and their skin is burned by the flames of old tires, which creates thick clouds of black smoke over the city. Fish had been the traditional source of protein in the Niger Delta, but as fish stocks have dwindled due to pollution from the oil industry and over fishing, meat is becoming more common. Date: June 20, 2006. Location: Port Harcourt. Image: Ed Kashi


Amidst the bones and smoke, a young girl sells drinks to the workers at the Trans-Amadi Slaughter, the main abbatoir of Port Harcourt. At the slaughter, animals are killed in the open, their blood spilt into the waterways below and their skin is burned by the flames of old tires, which creates thick clouds of black smoke over the city. Fish had been the traditional source of protein in the Niger Delta, but as fish stocks have dwindled due to pollution from the oil industry and over fishing, meat is becoming more common. Date: June 20, 2006. Location: Port Harcourt. Image: Ed Kashi

Portrait: Carla Bruni Sarkozy Nude By Pamela Hanson

Nude of Carla Bruni Sarkozy to be auctioned in Berlin
A staff member of auction house Villa Grisebach holds a nude of French first lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy in Berlin, Germany, 02 June 2009. The photography titled 'Carla Bruni in Bed' (1994) by Pamela Hanson will be auctioned in Berlin on 04 June, a bid of 2,500 to 3,500 euro is expected.

On The Set Of "I Love You, I Don't" By Georges Pierre

American actor Joe Dallesandro, British actress and singer Jane Birkin and her partner, French director, singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg on the set of Gainsbourg's film "Je T'Aime, Moi Non Plus" (I Love You, I Don't). Date: October 01, 1975. Location: France. Image: Georges Pierre/Sygma.

Collection: Random Takes

Ndebele woman around ankles of a woman. The Ndebele people are African tribes located in South Africa and Zimbabwe, sometimes known as Matabele. (Undate). Image: Denny Allen/Gallo Images


People of the Samburu tribe. Samburu District is a district in Rift Valley Province, Kenya. ca.1983. Image:Panoramic Images.


Bopende tribesmen of the Western Congo wearing popeyed masks and costumes of fiber performing ancient ritual dances during initiation of boys into their tribal society. ca. 1951. Image: Eliot Elisofon.


Typical Vicotorian dress (12 meter material) and hats. Influence of 19th century German missionaries' wives. Yearly procession through the town. Red Flag Herero gather in traditional dress to remember fallen chiefs (killed in battles with Nama and Germans). The Herero and Namaqua Genocide is considered to have been the first genocide of the 20th century. It took place between 1904 and 1907 in German South-West Africa (modern day Namibia), during the scramble for Africa. (Undated). Image: Frans Lemmens/The Image Bank.



Northern Namibia, Himba tribeswomen in traditional clothing. October 2007, The Himba are an ethnic group of about 20,000 to 50,000 people, living in northern Namibia, in the Kunene region (formerly Kaokoland). They are a nomadic, pastoral people, closely related to the Herero, and speak the same language. Date: October 2007. Location: Northern Namibia. Image: Wonderlust Industries/The Mage Bank.

Portrait: Grace Jones Wired

International model and disco queen Grace Jones has just won the award for most promising disco artist of 1977. Her fisrt two disco releases: That's the Trouble and I Need a Man-have soared to the top of the charts. Her first album is called Jones-Portfolio. 9/9/1977. Image: Bettmann Collection/Corbis

Grace Jones on the set of the James Bond 007 film "A View To Kill" by John Glen, October 1, 1984. Image: Nancy Moran

Grace Jones in Provocative outfit. Date: January 1977. Image: Bettmann

Grace Jones performs in New York City in 1977 taken by legendary rock and roll photographer Chuck Pulin

Portrait: Beauty and the African Woman

Steve Kraitt Photography (Undated)

Metallic make-up. Steve Kraitt Photography (Undated)

Classic: Elegantly Dressed Models

New York's newest fashion face, model Iman, a 20 year old, 5-10, regally striking Somali tribeswoman, launches her modeling career at a press conference in Manhattan, New York. She was discovered by photographer-adventurer Peter Beard. She's wearing a sari-like sheath of brightly patterned chiffon with her black hair coifed high off her forehead and the ivory tusks of a wart hog joined with silver around her neck. Date: October 22, 1975. Image: Harry Leder.

Model Grace Jones, also known for her acting and singing career, is wearing a clingy pink dress with an attached hood for the Tunisian designer Azzedline Alaia Women's 1986 Spring-Summer Haute Couture line in Paris October 30, 1985. Image: Pierre Vauthey

Model Beverly Johnson wearing a cotton knit cardigan, matching button-front tank top and a dark pleated wool skirt by Bill Bass with a soft-brimmed hat by Don Marshall and flat envelope by I. Miller. Date: February 1974. Location: New York. Image: Francesco Scavullo

 Tyra Banks modeling a halequinn patterned blazer with leather pants and hat in the Perry Ellis, by Marc Jacobs April 7, 1992. Image: George Chinsee/Conde Nast

Portrait: Nudity and Beauty

Blurred silhouette of a woman's body. Image: Fendis. Unrated and undated


Woman holding her hands out. Location: Deutscland Image: Fendis, Unrated and undated



English actress Pepita Bobisela, who was the wife of dramatist Charles Hadden Chambers. Image: E.O. Hoppe; 1919

Sergio Pessolano's "Mother and Child"

I like this expression captured by Sergio Pessolano. It is original and a symbol of the true nature of Motherland Africa.

A Portrait of Mother and Child by Jerry Taliaferro

Black, indeed, is beautiful. The above portrait is one of photographer Jerry Taliaferro's captures. Taliaferro was born in Brownsville, Tennessee. He joined the army and later entered the United States Academy at West Point. His photo works was discovered while stationed in Germany.

I can imagine how this amazing portrait of mother and child brings back memories of the origin of true black women and as a tribute to our mothers, wives, sisters and daughters.