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🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hacker's pulled off the largest crypto heist in history. |
0:04.0 | $600 million. |
0:05.0 | I mean, I was jaw-dropping. |
0:07.0 | That's a huge amount of money. |
0:09.0 | The race to track down the stolen money led the investigators in the FBI around the globe. |
0:13.0 | When you're dealing with hacking groups that have an army of cyber criminals you're in for a long fight. |
0:20.0 | A classic who'd on it and how from planet money on NPR? |
0:24.0 | This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. |
0:27.0 | Do you remember the first time you saw a black model on the cover of a magazine or walk down a runway? |
0:33.0 | Chances are Beth Ann Hartison had something to do with it. |
0:36.0 | There is no one title that encapsulates Hartison's 50 plus year career in fashion. |
0:41.0 | She entered the fashion world in the late 60s as a model before becoming one of the first black women to own a modeling agency. |
0:48.0 | Throughout her career she's rallied for diversity and is credited with helping to jumpstart and support the careers of models like Naomi Campbell, |
0:56.0 | who calls her mom, Tyson Beckford, whom she discovered, and Iman, who considers Hartison a mentor. |
1:02.0 | A new documentary chronicles Hartison's life and career. |
1:05.0 | It's titled Invisible Beauty, which Hartison co-directed with documentary filmmaker Frederick Chang. |
1:12.0 | Hartison has won many awards throughout her career, including the Council of Fashion Designers of America's Eleanor Lambert Founders Award in 2014. |
1:21.0 | And recognition of her work championing diversity in fashion over three decades. |
1:26.0 | Beth Ann Hartison, welcome to Fresh Air. |
1:29.0 | Well thank you so much. I'm happy to be here. |
1:32.0 | You describe yourself in the film as like the first black, black looking model. |
1:38.0 | Can you paint a picture of what you mean? How did your look differ from the status quo at the time during your modeling days? |
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