Aja
Musician · TV Personality
* biological father – African-American, some Nigerian * biological mother – Puerto Rican [Indigenous Taíno, Arawak], African-American, Egyptian
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
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Anderson Cooper
TV Personality
English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Welsh, Scottish, 1/16th Chilean [Spanish, Indigenous], distant Dutch, remote French Huguenot
New York City, New York, U.S.
Brittney Griner
Athlete
African-American, Louisiana Creole [African, French, distant German and Spanish]
Houston, Harris, Texas, U.S.
DaniLeigh
Musician
Dominican Republic [Spanish, Portuguese, African, some Indigenous]
Miami, Florida, U.S.
Dionne Warwick
Actor · Musician · TV Personality
African-American, with small amounts of English, Irish, and Scottish
East Orange, Essex, New Jersey, U.S.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
TV Personality
European [Irish, English], African-American
Keyser, West Virginia, U.S.
Jesse Williams
Actor · Model
Father: African-American · Mother: English, Swedish
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Justine Skye
Actor · Musician · Model
African-Jamaican, one quarter Indian
Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Langston Fishburne
Actor
Father: African-American · Mother: African-Bahamian, African-Trinidadian, possibly European
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
LeVar Burton
Actor · TV Personality
African-American, smaller amount of English
Landstuhl, Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany (now Germany)