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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Alexander Pushkin
Russian (75%), one eighth Cameroonian African, German, more distant Norwegian and Danish
Moscow, Russian Empire
Amber Rose
Actor · Musician · Model
Italian (37.5%), one quarter Cape Verdean [African, Portuguese], Irish, as well as Scottish, Cornish, and English
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
America Ferrera
Actor
Honduran [Spanish, as well as Indigenous, some African], small amount of Ashkenazi/Sephardi Jewish
Los Angeles, California, United States
Andy Allo
Actor · Musician
Father: Cameroonian · Mother: German, Irish, Welsh, English
Bamenda, Northwest Region, Cameroon
Anna Deavere Smith
Actor
African-American [including Igbo Nigerian, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Angola, Cameroon, Congo, and Senegal], English
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Anthony Anderson
Actor · TV Personality
African-American
Compton, Los Angeles, California, United States
Azealia Banks
Actor · Musician
African-American, some Barbadian
Manhattan, 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.
Courtney B. Vance
Actor
African-American [including ancestry from Nigeria, Ivory Coast/Ghana, Cameroon/Congo, and Senegal]
Detroit, Michigan, 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.