Boris Kodjoe
Actor born in Austria and raised in Germany, whose U.S. education at Virginia Commonwealth University preceded a career in American television and film.
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Constance Jones Simmons
Stuttgart-born American journalist and news anchor, also known as Constance Jones. Her reporting and BGHRA appearances connect German and U.S. experiences.
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Dennis Schröder
Braunschweig-born German basketball player whose professional career connects German basketball and the NBA.
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Fatima El-Tayeb
Professor at Yale whose scholarship examines Black Europe, diaspora, European racial formations, queer of color critique and transnational feminisms. Trained in history at the University of Hamburg.
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Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi
Hamburg-born journalist and author who later made his career in the United States as an editor at Ebony. His memoir documents growing up Black under National Socialism.
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Isaiah Hartenstein
German-American basketball player whose upbringing and professional career connect Germany and the United States. He has publicly discussed his Black family heritage.
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Layla Zami
Interdisciplinary artist working with music, poetry and performance.
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Michael McEachrane
Swedish scholar and international human rights advocate, now Senior Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Black European Studies & the Atlantic (CBESA) in Pittsburgh. His work connects Black European studies, postcolonialism and human rights across Europe and the United States, including a previous appointment at the University of Bremen in Germany.
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Nyara Sabally
Berlin-raised German basketball player who studied and played at the University of Oregon before entering the WNBA.
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Oxana Chi
Dancer and choreographer whose work connects embodied memory with diaspora.
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Rosemarie Peña
Founder and president of BGHRA, researching Black German history, childhood, adoption and transatlantic belonging, and teaching on Black German art, identity and resistance.
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Satou Sabally
German-American basketball player, born in New York and raised partly in Berlin, with a professional career in the WNBA.
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Zazie Beetz
Berlin-born German-American actor raised between German and American cultures, known for Atlanta and films including Deadpool 2.
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