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Bakari Sellers Biography, Net Worth, Salary, Career, Age, Parents, Wife, Awards, Social Media Handles

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Bakari Sellers Biography

Bakari Sellers is a South Carolina native from Bamberg in the United States, and he is known to have spent his childhood in Bamberg. He had his high school education at Orangeburg High School in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

He was known to have earned a bachelor’s degree in African-American studies at Morehouse College which is known to be a school of law in the South Carolina capital. Sellers served for one James Clyburn, a congressman as well as one Shirley Franklin.

As president of the Morehouse College student body, Sellers went to the annual AIPAC conference for the first time. He later rose to fame as an influential African-American Zionist.

Who is Bakari Sellers?

Bakari Sellers is a political commentator, an attorney, and a political activist. He is most known for serving in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2006 to 2014. According to the reports, he is a current political analyst on CNN.

Bakari Sellers

Bakari Sellers Net Worth: How Much Does he have?

The exact sum of Bakari Sellers’ wealth has not yet been disclosed. Our calculations, however, place his net worth between $1 and $5 million.

Bakari Sellers Salary: How Much is he Paid?

Bakari’s annual income ranges from $51,210 to $61,883, according to CNN analyst salaries.

Bakari Sellers Career

Sellers started out in the law field. In addition to being on the boards of directors of Level Brands and Let America Vote, he has been a lawyer with the Strom Law Firm, L.L.C. in Columbia, South Carolina, since 2007.

Bakari Sellers was known to have served at Morehouse College. And while serving there as Morehouse College’s student body president, Sellers went to the annual AIPAC conference for the first time. Since then, he has emerged as a leading African-American Zionist.

In 2016, he wrote a letter on behalf of 60 other African-American leaders requesting the Democratic Platform Committee to use the same terminology and declining to add the claim that Israel is occupying Palestine, which had been included in earlier Democratic platforms.

Sellers tweeted the following in reaction to a confrontation involving Nicholas Sandmann, a teen, and Native American activist Nathan Phillips at the Lincoln Memorial: “He’s a wretched person. A punch to the face is another option for some people.” Sellers removed the tweet after saying that it was “metaphoric” and “taken out of context,” but he insisted that the kids had “displayed xenophobic, racist attitudes.”

From 2006 to 2014, Sellers served as the lower house’s representative for South Carolina’s 90th legislative district. At the age of 22, Sellers was the nation’s youngest elected African American. In order to compete for lieutenant governor in 2014, he gave up his seat in the South Carolina House of Representatives, but Henry McMaster defeated him. Justin T. Bamberg took over for him as Speaker of the House.

Bakari Sellers Parents Names

Bakari Sellers was born to parents Cleveland Sellers and Gwendolyn Sellers. Cleveland Sellers is known to be a professor whiles Gwendolyn is a civil rights activist.

Bakari Sellers Age: How Old Is he?

Bakari Sellers is currently 38 years old. He was born on September 18, 1984, in Bamberg, South Carolina, in the United States.

Bakari Sellers Wife Name

Bakari Sellers is married to his wife, Ellen Rucker Sellers. The couple married in 2015. The couple has twins together, a boy and a girl.

Bakari Sellers Awards

Sellers was included in Time magazine’s list of the 40 Under 40 in 2010. Sellers was included in Politico’s list of the “50 politicos to watch” in 2012.

In July 2014, Sellers received the HBCU Top 30 Under 30 award.

Bakari Sellers Social Media Handles

 (@bakarisellers) is the Instagram handle of Bakari Sellers, who has 148k followers. On Twitter, Bakari Sellers goes by the name @Bakari_Sellers with 400k followers.