12 Black Celebrities You Probably Didn’t Know Were Related

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Al Roker & Lenny KravitzNBC’s Today show’s accomplished weatherman and anchor Al Roker says that he and superstar rocker Lenny Kravitz are cousins. In the July 2011 issue of UsWeekly, Roker said that he and Kravitz’s mother, late actress Roxie Roker ( Helen Willis character on The Jeffersons television series), were first cousins.

 

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Bill Bellamy & ShaqRetired NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal and actor and stand-up comedian Bill Bellamy, who both hail from Newark, N. J., are second cousins.

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