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
i wrote too fast im from cuba and a know a little of english. even that im biracial I consider myself black, my grandpa was white.
im black let me explain this, black people only can have the genetic of white features from white ancestries so if you say she’s black she’s not, it’s demostrated that biracial people contain more white genes on their DNA (gary dourdan, rihanna, michael ealy) and african features, that means white genes predomined and black only a few (than skin, light olive skin,nose shape, lips etc) so if she marry with a biracial man surely they would have a child with more light skin than them cuz they have a common ancestry (white), black people stop been ingorant and accept the facts.
Just some simple math genetics because of you conclusion – “if she marry with a biracial man surely they would have a child with more light skin than them cuz they have a common ancestry (white)” :
2 birracial parents
(in this case lets go with mulatos (Bb)= “white” (bb) X “black”(BB))
(capital letter indicates the dominance)
will have (roughly and only considering the skin tone characteristic) these offspring genotype distributions:
Bb X Bb
25% “black” (BB)
25% “white” (bb)
50% “mulato” (Bb)
Bare in mind that the expression of any of these genotypes, i.e. the phenotypes, the actual skin colour/tone exhibited, can vary immensely even within each genotype!
They “surely” could have lighter skined children as they “surely” could have darker skined children too! ;)
i thought her mother was half sri-lankan or something?
THIS is why I REspect TYRA, she is not claiming every other race under the SUN and has been HIGHLY Successful in the shallow world of entertainment/modeling as a self proclaimed WHOLE BLACK AMERICAN female. THE most beautiful and RECOGNIZED on EARTh!!
TYRA IS ALL BLACK SHE MIGHT HAVE INDIAN ALL THE WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY DOWN HER BLOOD LINE BUT NOT CLOSE UP. BLACK PEOPLE CAN HAVE DIFFERENT COLOR EYES TO LIKE MICHAEL EALY, HE HAS BLUE EYES, LIGHT COMPLEXION, AND GOOD HAIR, BUT HE SAYS HE IS ALL BLACK, WHY WOULD ANY BODY LIE ABOUT THEIR RACE.