Stunning Vintage Photos Of Iconic Black Women Across The Diaspora On International Women’s Day

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UNITED STATES – JANUARY 11: Naomi Campbell poses early on in her career (Photo by Richard Corkery/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

Naomi Campbell (May 22, 1970)

Born in South London of Afro-Jamaican and Chinese-Jamaican heritage, Naomi Campbell was the premiere Black supermodel of the late ’80s and 1990s and is regarded, along with five contemporaries of her time, as one of the “original supermodels.” Despite the labeling, Campbell has used her platform to speak out against racial discrimination in the modeling industry.

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