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 thought her mother was mullto because that’s how she got grey eyes I’ve never seen a fully black person with grey eyes.
there are african people with blueeeee eyes brown eyes….greyyy eyess……look it up man!!! wam yal feel african ppl jus black/brown skinned with hard nappy shorty picky hair right?! nooo……it has more than that to an african dammm!!!! if u wud look african ppl are all different colours dey all have different features some naturally have curly hair….some hair…may be nappy and stiff n dryy…c’mon….african ppl look different….some look mixed…when dey actually are not
Ryan your right-i think people should be proud of their race/ethnicity…
Andrea, asians does not have noses like caucasians. More like negroid noses…
To the people saying “Race doesn’t matter” It does, maybe not to you for some reason but your race is a big part of your identity.
I’m proud to be of caucasian descent.
Think everyone should be. Even if you’re not white you should be proud to be asian, semitic or negroid.
Actually Ryan, semetic isn’t a race classification. Since you are already using Negroid, let’s help you out on proper identifying races based on the 3 basic racial groups.
Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid.
Technically Semitic would be Caucasoid. I think the other terms are simple enough you can figure out where to put the rest.
Oh, and for further clarification Semetic refers to the language. Languages are not race. Kind of like how people think Arab is a race. It’s also not, again it’s just a language. Like many people you call Semetic being Caucasoid, so are many middle easterners also Caucasoid.
Good point!im proud to be mulatto…half white half black…but what makes you so sure you are just caucasian?take a dna test,and you might be in for a shock.
i agree with PM we need to start teaching that to are children.
i always thought that she was mixed with black and white