Boris Kodjoe? Lauren London?: Black People You Didn’t Know Were Jewish

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Lenny Kravitz

Lenny’s famous mother Roxie Roker — who played Helen Willis on The Jeffersons — gets a lot of press. But fewer people know that Lenny Kravitz’ father is a Jew who traces his roots back to the Ukraine.

Lenny says his mother encouraged him to remember his heritage saying,”You are just as much white as you are black, just as much Russian Jew as you are African-American.”

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