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
Wow tyra Banks is fully black.. interesting.. I didn’t think she was. She looks like she part black and part something else.. I say that because of how light she is and the way she talks. But either way she’s beautiful
personally i just think Tyra Banks is just a light skinned black person
look during salvery days in west africa
white men raped black women
that’s the only way people who are in africa r light skinned
i was born in ghanna which is in west africa
people need to pay attention in history class b4 they start talkin stufff thats not true
people in ghanna r beautiful and r country is beautiful
there r light skinned people there and dark skinned people there
THERES NOTHING WRONG WIT BEING LIGHT SKINNED
IF YOU DONT BELIEVE ME LOOK MY COUNTRY UP
Well yeh of coarse they are mixed and if you knew American history you would know that slaves came from West Africa and the only ones there with a light skin already had white blood in them. So you need to check yourself and re-learn your history.
Annonymous you are clearly ignorant. If you go to East Africa you will see there are a lot of women who look like Tyra Banks. I cannot believe some of the ignorant comments I am reading. African Americans don’t know anything outside of America. Is it rare to see and African Amercian with light skin as it appears to be a big issue with AAs. I cannot believe because a person has light skin hey are deemed mixed.