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
No one is 100% any race. The world is a now a melting pot of ethnicities. Does anyone in this feed know anything of biology and genes such as dominant and recessive. While, the dominant ethnicity could be: African American, Caucasian, Asian, etc. it doesn’t mean that there aren’t other ethnicities somewhere in the person’s lineage. Could it not be possible that certain genes lie recessive in a family and appear in some children while not in others. The truth is, everyone despite ethnicity, can be beautiful. I feel it is ignorant to play a race card just because someone questions someone’s ethnicity. No one “wants” a certain race to fail and if you truly believe that, maybe you should look a look at yourself and your own views. There are discriminatory words and feelings coming from everyone to all races. There are places all over the world where minority roles switch, and people who once were not the minority, find themselves being discriminated against. Walk a mile in someone else’s shoes before you jump to judgments, unless that’s how you want to be treated. If you don’t want to individually judged by your race, then don’t do it to others. I have no hate towards Tyra Banks, in fact, I watched her show everyday. Stop with the hate and maybe we could all get along. As all you Tyra lovers should know and act, “Fierce and LOVE”
Yes, there are people out there who are 100% one race! Not every country is like America or Brazil where there are a plethora of ethnicities.
I can see how you can say no one is 100% in america but its nt the same for other countries for example I’m from Ethiopia and I’m 100% black
every non”white” country has been occupied by white ppl. doesn’t matter how far or close in history. that being said every human being on this earth has the genetics for all traits.. gr 12 biology. White ppl are white cause they breed more with their own characteristics, and same with every other race.
i am Sri Lankan – so “indian” – i don’t look like a typical brown person. that being said i know that there is mixes in my lineage of portugese and dutch. regardless i am sri lankan cause that is all i have known and ever will know. but just because i have that lineage doesn’t mean i get upset like more than half the posts on this thread. yeah tyra is black i am with you on that, but i wouldn’t go as far as to call other ppl ignorant just because they point out that there is a mix of another race in there. we are all mutts i don’t think anyone here is of pure blood. so let’s stop arguing about what tyra is after she’s stated she’s black and get back to the more important thing… she’s gorgeous.
Not trying to be racist by saying this but y couldn’t the white ppl mAde this so much easier by keeping record of us. How the duck us black ppl suppose 2 know what we have in our blood. I consider myself black cause that is who I wad influence by in my life even though u can tell I’m mix because my texture and length of hair is different from blacks
Nice job Anonymous idiot. Do you realize he is referring to slavery? Of course people knew what ethnicity/tribe they were from, but it’s pretty hard to keep track of under slave conditions. Besides which, most white Americans didn’t even keep record of their history. Most of the family lineage websites you go to are based on records kept by the Mormons. Go fuck off.
@partylikecrazi….
Could you please inform me on how “blacks” hair texture and length is suppose to be? I really want to hear your answer since you know so well.
But, before you do, let me tell you about myself. I have freckles(face full of them); light brown eyes, which sometimes can look hazel in the light; auburn colored hair(thick and wavy)and very long. My father is tanned complexion with kinky red hair and my mother was dark skinned with fine straight hair.
Now by your calculations, my mother should have had kinky hair and my dad soft curly hair. But, wait.. I have two black parents and grandparents on both sides are black. So how do you explain the freckles.
Do not group people nor put God’s creation in a box to fit your small mind.
She looks a lot ethiopian or sudanese like.
But who cares what she is.. black/white/arabian doesn’t matter she’s fucking gorgeous.
Totally!
:)
I think because of the long face and big forehead, but she’s still far off. I’m half Somalian half Nigerian and she looks like nothing like the Somalian side of my family. js
wow so weird….I remember reading a magazine article in the 90s about her, in which she said she was German and African American….now she’s just claiming she’s African American?