Micheal Michele whats her Race?

Question

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005230/bio

Answer 1

African American even though in our terms she is considered "bi-racial" owing to the fact that her father is white.
There was a colloquial theory that had been applied in the United States that holds that a person with any trace of sub-Saharan ancestry (however small or invisible) can not be considered white and so unless said person has an alternative non-white ancestry they can claim, such as Native American, Asian, Arab, Australian aboriginal, they must be considered black.