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Angela Davis
Politician
* grandfathers – European [English, some Scottish, Welsh, and French] * grandmothers – African-American
Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, U.S.
Bakari T. Sellers
Politician · TV Personality
African-American, one eighth British Isles [English, Scottish]
Barack Obama
Politician
Father: Luo Kenyan · Mother: English, small amounts of Scottish, Irish, German, Welsh, Swiss-German, French Huguenot, possibly remote African
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Byron Donalds
Politician
African-American, African-Jamaican/Panamanian
Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Cornel West
Actor · Politician · TV Personality
African-American, Louisiana Creole [African, French]
Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Cory Booker
Politician
African-American, some English, small amount of Native American, distant German and Irish
Washington, D.C., U.S.
David Paterson
Politician · TV Personality
Father: African-Carriacouan/Grenadian, African-Jamaican · Mother: African-American
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.