Prominent Jewish People of Color
Named a 2005 MacArthur Fellow, President Obama’s first appointment to the National Council on the Arts and member of President Biden’s Arts Policy Committee, Aaron P. Dworkin is former dean […]
Aaron Samuels is a poet and entrepreneur. Samuels is the co-founder and COO of Blavity Inc., a digital publication for Black millennials that was launched in 2014. His first book […]
Adah Issacs Menken was an American actress and writer popular during the 1850s and 1860s, until her untimely death at 33 in 1868. Menken performed on stages across the United […]
Alysa Stanton is an American Reform rabbi, and the first African American female rabbi. Ordained on June 6, 2009 in August 2009 she began work as a rabbi at Congregation […]
Black, Jewish, “genderqueer, fat, and disabled,” as she calls herself on her website, Lovelace is “committed to justice and the liberation of all oppressed people.” Utilize her Twitter feed as […]
Amar’e Carsares Stoudemire is an American-Israeli professional basketball coach and former player who most recently served as a player development assistant for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association. […]
Ana Rodriguez-Katz is a Guatemalan-born Jewish Latina educator based in Atlanta. She has been working for PJ Library Atlanta for four years and is also a Sunday school teacher at […]
Angela Warnick Buchdahl (Korean: 앤절라 워닉 북달;[2] born July 8, 1972) is an American rabbi. She was the first Asian-American to be ordained as a rabbi, and the first Asian-American […]
Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell is an American singer and musician who performs in Yiddish. He is an African-American convert to Judaism.
Daveed Daniele Diggs (born January 24, 1982) is an American actor, rapper, and singer-songwriter. He is the vocalist of the experimental hip hop group Clipping, and in 2015, he originated […]
Born in Boca Raton, Florida, Eric Andre was raised Jewish by his Haitian father and his Ashkenazi mother. Since 2012, Andre has hosted The Eric Andre Show and has appeared […]
Not much is known about Goldye M. Steiner’s early life, but by the mid-1920s, Steiner had risen to prominence in New York City’s famous Yiddish theater scene. Steiner is often […]
Isaiah Rothstein grew up in an ultra-Orthodox community in Monsey, New York, and earned rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University. An advocate for racial and environmental justice who is deeply involved […]
James McBride is an American writer and musician. He is the recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for fiction for his novel The Good Lord Bird.
Today, the accomplished violinist is a cantorial soloist and a student at the non-denominational Academy for Jewish Religion California in Los Angeles. When she graduates next year, she will become […]
Born and raised in the Toronto suburbs, Josh Ho-Sang is a professional ice hockey player. After being drafted by the New York Islanders in the 2014 Entry Draft, Ho-Sang spent […]
Julius Lester converted to Judaism in 1982 at age 43, an experience he wrote about in the book Lovesong: On Becoming a Jew. His interest in Judaism began as a […]
Born in Chicago in 1953, Karen Lewis made history when she became the first Black woman to graduate from Dartmouth College. Lewis taught high school chemistry for nearly 20 years […]
Leonard Albert Kravitz is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor. His music blends rock, funk, reggae, soul, R&B, and hard rock, with early hits like “Are You […]
American actress. She portrayed Denise Huxtable on the sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–1992), for which she earned widespread acclaim and a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting […]
Maya Khabira Rudolph is an American actress and comedian who became a household name after joining the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2000. She’s won consecutive Emmys for her […]
He is the author of The Cooking Gene, published by HarperCollins/Amistad, which won the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Book of the Year as well as the category […]
Nissim Baruch Black is an American-Israeli rapper, songwriter, record producer, and podcast host. Under the stage name D. Black, he released the albums The Cause & Effect and Ali’yah and […]
Rashida Leah Jones is an American actress, writer, producer, and director with a diverse career spanning film, television, and journalism. She’s best known for her roles as Ann Perkins on […]
Sandra Lawson (born 1970) is a rabbi and the first Director of Racial Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Reconstructing Judaism. She previously served as Associate Chaplain for Jewish Life at […]
Raised in Newark, New Jersey in the early 1900s, LaRue studied in an Orthodox day school as a child, where he learned Hebrew and Yiddish. By the 1920s, LaRue was […]
Raised by her Christian mother before entering the foster care system, comedian Tiffany Haddish did not know about her Jewish roots until adulthood. She first met her father, an Eritrean […]
Tracee Joy Silberstein, known professionally as Tracee Ellis Ross, is an award-winning actress, model, and founder of the haircare brand Pattern. She’s known for her roles as Joan Carol Clayton […]
Walter Ellis Mosley (born January 12, 1952) is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled […]
Zoë Isabella Kravitz is an American actress, singer, model, and filmmaker. Kravitz is known for her roles in Big Little Lies, Mad Max: Fury Road, and The Batman, where she played Catwoman. She also starred in […]