11 Facts About Bakari Sellers

Bakari T Sellers was born on September 18,1984 and is an American attorney, political commentator, and politician.

Since 2015, Bakari Sellers has served as a political commentator on CNN.

Bakari Sellers grew up in Bamberg County, South Carolina, and was educated at Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School, a public high school in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

In 2005, Bakari Sellers earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in African-American Studies from Morehouse College, a private all-male and historically black, liberal arts college, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Bakari Sellers represented South Carolina's 90th district in the lower house of the state legislature from 2006 to 2014, becoming the youngest African American person elected official in the country at age 22.

Bakari Sellers vacated his seat in the South Carolina House of Representatives to run for Lieutenant Governor in 2014, but lost to Henry McMaster.

Bakari Sellers was succeeded in the House by Justin T Bamberg.

Bakari Sellers first attended the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference while serving as a student body president at Morehouse College.

Bakari Sellers was named HBCU Top 30 Under 30 in July 2014.

In May 2020, Bakari Sellers released an autobiography, My Vanishing Country, that centers on the forgotten lives of African-American working-class people in the rural US South.

Bakari Sellers has twins, a boy and a girl, born in 2018.