Tyra Banks
Banks in 2011, kathclick/bigstock.com
Birth Name: Tyra Lynne Banks
Place of Birth: Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: December 4, 1973
Ethnicity: African-American
Tyra Banks is an American model, television personality, producer, businessperson, actress, author, and singer. She was the host of The Tyra Banks Show from 2005 to 2010, created, and presented, the show America’s Next Top Model, and appeared in the films Coyote Ugly and Halloween: Resurrection, among other works. She is also known as BanX.
Her parents, Caroline (London) and Donald Banks, are both African-American. A picture of Tyra with her parents can be seen here.
Tyra has a son with her former partner, Norwegian photographer Erik Asla.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show America’s Next Top Model (2014) stated that Tyra’s genetic ancestry is:
*79% African
*14% British
*6% Native American
One of Tyra’s great-great-grandfathers was named Walter Taylor.
Tyra’s maternal grandfather possibly was Ernest London (the son of Edward London and Ophelia Christopher). Ernest was born in Louisiana. Edward was the son of Charles London and Maria. Ophelia was the daughter of Antoine/Antony Christopher and Susan West Duncan/Champ.
Tyra’s maternal grandmother was Florine B. Coleman (the daughter of Fletcher Coleman and Lucinda/Loucindy Wisner/Hampton). Florine was born in Texas. Fletcher was born in Texas, the son of Ezekle “Zeke”/Ezekiel Coleman and Julia Beasley.
Sources: Genealogical information on Tyra Banks – https://blogs.ancestry.com
To Mellow Yellow
So does this mean your calling yourself dumb?
yeah i know, but where did you see something like this in my comment ??? looool
And what about south africans ?? they could be black, or white couldn’t they ??? So when i say aishwarya rai is south asian, i’m referring to the country she comes from, not her ethnicity, and i could also say that charlize theron is south african, because she was born and raised in south africa, even if she’s white.
I’m french, and black, does it mean that i’m not french ??? No sorry.
I know where India is, but its inhabitants aren’t related with others called Asians or East Asians..
LOL you’re the one who say east africans are considered white … !!!
When i said she’s south asian, it’s because she comes from a country (india) in southern asia. Now if you don’t know geography i can’t help it.
Indians are considered Caucasoids, not Asians.
Oy vey! DO you see where this is going? Who makes up all these rules and groups? Caucasoid, not Asian, etc. Think about why these rules were created. It’s sick really. Racial groupifying is a sick thing.
That designation is pretty recent–prior to 1950, Indians were considered to be Asian or Mongoloid the designation changed as whites recognized they needed Indians to help continue a viable gene pool and the contributions of Indians were significant enough to merit inclusion as white since it would be almost impossible to have a nonwhite or nonAsian society be as great or greater than caucasian.