La La Anthony
Anthony in 2010, Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Alani Nicole Vázquez
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: June 25, 1979
Ethnicity: Puerto Rican [African, Spanish, possibly other]
La La Anthony, born Alani Nicole Vázquez, and also known as La La Vázquez, is an American radio and television personality, author, businessperson, producer, and actress.
La La was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, to Puerto Rican (Nuyorican) parents. She has described herself as a “Black-Puerto Rican,” and stated:
I embrace being a Black-Puerto Rican and think we are plentiful and do exist! I am more “black” than people think… Since I don’t look like J-Lo, it’s hard for me to get the Puerto Rican/Latin role in a movie. I speak fluent Spanish, but get cast as being black long before they put me as the Latino.
La La has a son, basketball player Kiyan Anthony, with her former husband, professional basketball player Carmelo Anthony, who is of Puerto Rican and African-American descent.
Anthony with husband Carmelo Anthony in 2011, Rena Schild / Shutterstock.com
LA LA IS BLACK AND PUERTO-RIVAN SHRE SAID IT ON AND EPISODE ON LA LA FULL COURT LIFE.. UGHH!
OMG ON THE SHOW LA LA FULL COURT LIFE SHE SAID SHE ALSO MIXED WITH BLACK ON AN EPISODE WHEN HER FRIEND SAID BLACK WOMEN NOT ADVENTUROUS ENOUGH AND SHE SAID SHE WAS AND SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT BEING AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND AND SHE NOT FULLY PUERTO-RICAN Y’ALL SHOULD WATCH HER SHOW VERY ENTERTAINING :) SHE GORGEOUS!!!
WHY DO AFRICAN-AMERICANS ALWAYS Debate US Latinos/Hispanics Heritage? so What people want to “label” Ugly ass La La as “Black” IS THS SO IMPORTANT TO U?? I notice so MANY Times Americans IGNORANT, Wikipedia-Education spewing hating and MISINFORMATION regarding people’s Heritage! ARE ANY of U an ARCHEOLOGIST? HAVE TRAVELED AND EXPERIENCE OUTSIDE YOUR AMERICAN CULTURE?? My POINT is SO WHAT, WHAT is THE NEED to IDENTIFY US LATINOS as this or that?? JUST MIND YOUR OWN FAMILY TREE and STOP TRYING TO LABEL OTHERS HERITAGE!!
CORRECTION: ARE ANY OF YOU AN ARCHAEOLOGIST???
Jealous much?????????
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people
She’s fricking latina not black.
Multiethnicchick, you’re all over this site spreading your ignorance. Take a moment and read commenter “lmfao” comment. Thanks…
oh yeah where am
I spreading my so called ignorance. Not my fault every exotic person is automatically labeled black. She”s mixed which is what Latino people are. Ultimately she’s what she calls herself, but judging by what it says on here, she’s mixed.
Many Latino’s idenitfy with being Black. Again, why does that bother you? The acknowledge that they have African ancestry and if they see themselves as being Black then thats how they identify. Educate yourself about the history of Latinos b4 you claim to know what they are and aren’t.
okay where in my statement did I say that it bothered me? I’m not even talking about that. The site says she Puerto Rican and black so I called her mixed which is what Latinos pretty much are. Do you even read people’s comments or do you just type random nonsense in to satisfy your own ego?
Latina/Latin is an ethnicity. I saw La La’s mother and she is clearly what some would term a white Puerto Rican. I’m guessing her father is a black Puerto Rican. Black is a race as is Asian, White and Indigenous American. There are ethnicities within races, ok get that straight and science backs it up.
I suggest you educate yourself about migratory patterns and how they’ve influences racial expression. Black people have been carted all over the world, including South America and Asia ok. Asians and primarily Chinese have been spread all over, primarily Africa, the US, Carribean and some parts of South America.
The amount of ignorance I’ve been finding on internet boards is apalling. Go to the National Geographic site if you want to really understand and correct your thinking.
Wrong their are only 3 races Black, White & Asian. Native people are considered asian in ancestory.
She called herself black on her tv show she says she is black so go with it ….
blacks can claim her all they want. She’s not a real latina anyways she’s black that can speak spanish that’s it.
DA X lmfao what do you think Hispanic people are? Are you forgetting “Latina” is not a race? You can have a Asian Latina….
dumb comment
just because she’s black doesn’t make her any less latina
latina not a race