Beverly Johnson, the first African-American woman to grace the cover of Vogue, appears in the film, as does another black beauty ("one-eighth African-American, " she clarifies in "About Face"): Cleveland, who spoke poignantly about being attacked in the racist South during her early days modeling with the Ebony Fashion Fair.

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Weighing 320g, the stone has been given the formal name Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034 - but is nicknamed "Black Beauty".

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He noticed that the fish had a dime-sized black dot just under its gills, like a beauty mark.

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Mr. ALEXANDER: I'd like this book to really give black women something to celebrate themselves in which they should walk away with lot of pride about the diversity of their beauty and the diversity of their hair as something that--I think when a black woman comes into the world, hair is something that is discussed in her life very early on.

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