Ron Eglash: African Fractals in Buildings and Braids

Ron Eglash is an ethno-mathematician: he studies the way math and cultures intersect. He has shown that many aspects of African design -- in architecture, art, even hair braiding -- are based on perfect fractal patterns.

When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet. -- Ron Eglash, Mathematician

Check out his book African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design

Klum crowns Sara 'Germany's Next Topmodel'

Sara, a 19-year-old whose parents come from Ethiopia, became the fourth winner of Heidi Klum’s show "Germany’s Next Topmodel". source

Jourdan Dunn, Summer Nights for British Vogue

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Ursula Burns , Xerox CEO

Ursula M. Burns (New York, New York, September 20, 1958 - ) currently serves as president of Xerox Corporation, named to the position in March 2007. She previously served as president of the company's Business Group Operations and as a corporate senior vice president. On 21 May 2009, it was announced she will succeed Anne M. Mulcahy as CEO starting 1 July.

Burns joined Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineering summer intern. She subsequently held several positions in engineering, including product development and planning. In June 1991 she became the executive assistant to Paul A. Allaire, then Xerox chairman and chief executive officer.

From 1992 through 2000, Burns led several business teams, including the office color and fax business, office network copying business and the departmental business unit. In May 2000, she was named senior vice president, Corporate Strategic Services, and most recently, president of the Document Systems and Solutions Group.

Usrula married her husband Lloyd Bean in October 1988. Since then she has been successfully juggling raising a family of 2 kids, Malcolm (born 1989) and Melissa (born 1992), and being an influential businesswoman. She enjoys reading, staying in shape, and spending time in big cities like Manhattan, London, and Paris. She also enjoys spending her down time with her family. She resides in Rochester, New York, New York City, and Bermuda. source.

Michelle Obama Covers Time Magazine

Michelle Obama. Portrait for Time magazine.

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Día de la Afrocolombianidad

The Afro-Colombian Day is commemorated since 2001, date which was established through Law 725, in memory of the 150 years of the abolition of slavery in Colombia, consecrated on May 21, 1851. source

Jourdan Dunn for Vogue Russia

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Kimberly Jade Norwood

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Professor of Law and Professor of African & African American Studies.

After graduation from law school Professor Norwood was a judicial clerk for the Honorable Clifford Scott Green in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Thereafter Professor Norwood joined the St. Louis law firm of Bryan, Cave, McPheeters, & McRoberts where she practiced law in the litigation department.

Her recent articles include "Adult Complicity in the Dis-Education of the Black Male High School Athlete and Societal Failures to Remedy His Plight,” 34 (1) ThurMar L.Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2008-2009), "Blackthink's™ "Acting White" Stigma in Education & How It Fosters Academic Paralysis in Black Youth," 50(3) How L.J. 711(2006-2007), [view article], "The Virulence of Blackthink™ and How Its Threat of Ostracism Shackles Those Deemed Not Black Enough," 93 Kentucky Law Journal 144 (2005) [view article]. source

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