Birth Name: Henry Louis Aaron
Place of Birth: Mobile, AL
Date of Birth: February 5, 1934
Eye Color: Brown
Ethnicity: African-American
Family info: Hank Aaron was a Major League Baseball player and a Hall of Famer. He is the son of Estella and Herbert Aaron.
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Birth Name: Michael Michele Williams
Place of Birth: Evansville, Indiana, U.S.
Date of Birth:August 30, 1966
Ethnicity: European father, African-American mother
Family info:Michele was born Michael Michele Williams in Evansville, Indiana. She was listed on Complex.com in the top 50 hottest biracial women.
Source:
http://www.blackflix.com/articles/multiracial.html
http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/06/the-50-hottest-biracial-women/
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Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Date of Birth: January 5, 1981
Ethnicity:
*Italian (father)
*African-American (mother)
Brooklyn Sudano is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She is the daughter of songwriter Bruce Sodano and singer Donna Summer.
Brooklyn’s paternal grandparents were Louis John Sudano and Margaret S. Alessio.
Brooklyn’s maternal grandparents were Andrew Gaines and Mary Ellen Davis.
Source: Obituary of Brooklyn’s paternal grandmother, Margaret S. (Alessio) Sudano – http://www.meaningfulfunerals.net
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Andrew McCutchen and Maria Hanslovan
Birth Name: Andrew Stefan McCutchen
Place of Birth: Fort Meade, FL
Date of Birth: October 10, 1986
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Type/Color: Brown
Ethnicity: African-American
Family info: Andrew McCutchen is a professional baseball player (outfielder) for the Pirates.
Source: http://m.pirates.mlb.com/news/article/64159830/
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Birth Name: Zachary LaVine
Place of Birth: Renton, Washington
Date of Birth: March 10, 1995
Eye Color: Blue/green
Hair Type/Color:curly Brown
Ethnicity: African American, Anglo-American
Zach Lavine is an American professional basketball player. He is the son of former NFL player Paul LaVine and Cheryl Johnson-LaVine. Zach is biracial (half black and white) with his mother being Caucasian and father being African American.
Picture of Zach’s parents and younger sister below.
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Birth Name: Michael Carter-Williams
Place of Birth: Hamilton, Massachusetts
Date of Birth: October 10, 1991
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Type/Color: Curly Black
Ethnicity: African American
Family info: Michael Carter-Williams was born to Earl Williams and Mandy Zegarowski (maiden name Carter) who are both of African American descent. His mother Mandy, also his manager, married Michael’s Step-father, Zach Zegarowski who is white possibly of Polish heritage.
Birth Name: Quincy Delight Jones, Jr.
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois
Date of Birth: March 14, 1933
Ethnicity: African-American, with some English, Scottish, and Welsh, and very remote French and Italian
Quincy Jones is an American music producer. He is the son of Sarah Frances (Wells) and Quincy Delight Jones. He has seven children, including actresses Kidada Jones and Rashida Jones.
Quincy is of African-American (West African/Central African) ancestry, with some English, Scottish, and Welsh, heritage, as well as very remote French and Italian ancestry (in the 1500s). According to a DNA test, he is of 34% European ancestry. He is descended from the Tikar people of Cameroon through his maternal lineage.
Quincy’s paternal grandparents were Caesar Jones and Susannah Burgess.
Quincy’s maternal grandparents were Love Adam Wells (the son of Nelson Wells and Sarah Campbell) and Mary Belle Lanier (the daughter of James Balance Lanier and Cordelia Dickson). James was caucasian, and had mostly English, as well as Scottish and Welsh, ancestry; his more remote ancestors also included Nicholas Lanier, a man born, c. 1544, in France, and Anthony Bassano and Elina De Nazzi, a pair of Italian immigrants to England in the 1500s.
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Birth Name: Lisa Kekaula
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California
Date of Birth: July 31, 1967
Ethnicity: African American, Native Hawaiian
Lisa Kekaula is the lead singer of the American Rock and Soul band The Bellrays. Her mother is of African American descent and her father is Native Hawaiian.
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Birth Name: Shaun Ross
Place of Birth: Bronx, New York City, New York
Date of Birth: May 10, 1991
Ethnicity: African American
Shaun Ross is an American model known for being the first male albino model. He is of African American descent.
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Birth Name: Rachel India True
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: November 15, 1966
Ethnicity:
* Anglo American (father)
* African American (mother)
Family Info:Rachel True is an American actress best known for her starring role as Mona Thorne in the television sitcom Half & Half, from 2002-2006.
True was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of Richard True and step-daughter of actress Verona Barnes. She has a younger half-sister, actress Noel True.
True’s father is Caucasian and her mother is African-American.
Source:http://www.tvsa.co.za/actors/viewactor.aspx?actorid=5888
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Birth Name: Frederick August Kittel
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Date of Birth: April 27, 1945
Ethnicity:
*German (father)
*African-American (mother)
Family Info: Playwright August Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 27, 1945. His mother, Daisy Wilson, was of African-American heritage. His father was a German immigrant named Frederick Kittel.
Source: http://www.biography.com/people/august-wilson-9533583#synopsis
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Birth Name: Amel Eliza Stowell
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Birth: March 8, 1973
Ethnicity:
*French, English, and Scottish (father)
*African-American (mother)
Family Info: Larrieux was born and raised in the Manhattan neighborhood of Greenwich Village, New York City. Her African American mother, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, is a dance critic, author, and college instructor. Her father is of French, English, and Scottish descent. She was a member of the group Groove Theory.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amel_Larrieux
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Birth Name: Natasha Shanta Reid
Place of Birth: Fort Hood, Texas
Date of Birth: May 31, 1981
Ethnicity: Korean (mother), Scottish, African American (father)
Family Info: Yoon Mi Rae is an American-born South Korean rapper and musician. She was in the Korean group Uptown. She is married to Tiger JK and has one son with him.
Source: Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yoon_Mi-rae.jpg
Birth Name: Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr.
Place of Birth: New York City, New York
Date of Birth: April 16, 1947
Ethnicity: African-American
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an American former NBA player who is in the Hall of Fame as a Laker.
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Birth Name: Reginald Martinez Jackson
Place of Birth: Wyncote, Cheltenham Township, PA
Date of Birth: May 18, 1946
Ethnicity: African-American, Puerto Rican
Reggie Jackson is a former Major League Baseball player in the Hall of Fame as an Oakland Athletic.
Source: http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/reggie-jackson-mr-october
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Birth Name: Eve Jihan Jeffers
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Birth: November 10, 1978
Ethnicity: African-American
Eve is an American hip-hop recording artist and actress.
Eve was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Julie Wilch-Jeffers, and Jerry Jeffers.
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Birth Name: Sean Michael Leonard Anderson
Place of Birth: Santa Monica, California
Date of Birth: March 25, 1988
Ethnicity: African-American
Big Sean is an American rapper.
Big Sean’s maternal grandmother’s name was Mildred.
Place of Birth: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Date of Birth: February 28, 1961
Ethnicity:
*Chinese, Scots-Irish (father)
*African-American (mother)
Rae Dawn Chong is a Canadian actress. She is the daughter of Maxine Sneed and comedian and actor Tommy Chong.
Her father is of half Chinese and half Scots-Irish descent. Has mother is from an African-American family that moved to Canada.
Rae is often stated to have Cherokee, or another type of Native American, ancestry on her mother’s side. It is not clear if this ancestry has been documented/verified. All four of Rae’s maternal great-grandparents were African-American.
Rae’s paternal grandparents were Stanley Chong and Lorna Jean Gilchrist (the daughter of Samuel Duncan Gilchrist and Emma Woodcock or Jemima Dillon). Stanley was Chinese. Samuel was born in Ireland, to William Gilchrist and Mary Graham. Jemima was the daughter of Joseph Dillon and Rence Armstrong.
Rae’s maternal grandparents were Napoleon Sneed (the son of George Washington Sneed and Pearl Anna Risby) and Willa Carothers (the daughter of Samuel Arthur Carothers/Carrothers and Beulah Heslep). George was born in Louisiana. Pearl was born in Kansas. Samuel and Beulah were born in Texas.
Sources: Rae’s maternal great-grandparents, Samuel Arthur Carothers/Carrothers and Beulah Heslep, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Samuel Arthur Carothers/Carrothers and Beulah Heslep, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
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Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, US
Date of Birth: March 30, 1964
Ethnicity: African-American
Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter. She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist.
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Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, US
Date of Birth: December 31, 1962
Ethnicity: African-American
Lance Reddick is an American actor and musician.
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