Bakari Sellers Net Worth: Height, Age, Bio, Career & Wife

Bakari Sellers is an accomplished lawyer and politician from the United States. From 2006 until 2014, he was the representative for the 90th District in the South Carolina House of Representatives. Bakari was the first African-American to be elected to a high-ranking position in the government. He works as a political commentator for CNN right now. Bakari Sellers is believed to have a net worth of $1 to $5 million as of 2022.

Full Name	Bakari T. Sellers
Birth Date	September 18, 1984
Birth Place	United States
Profession	Attorney, Politician
Wife	Ellen Rucker Carter
Net Worth	$1 to $5 million

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Early life

On September 18, 1984, Bakari Sellers was born in New York City. New Cleveland and Gwendolyn Sellers, his parents, raised him. Cleveland’s father was a professor as well as a civil rights leader. He grew raised in Bamberg County, South Carolina, and spent his youth there.

He attended Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School, which is located in Orangeburg, South Carolina, for his schooling. In 2005, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in African-American studies from Morehouse College. In 2008, he graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law with a Juris Doctorate.

Bakari Sellers Net Worth & Career

In 2007, Bakari began working for Strom Legal Practice, a Columbia-based law firm. He was president of the student body at Morehouse College while there. As a result, he decided to go to AIPAC’s inaugural annual lobbying conference. He’s been a well-known African-American Zionist since then.

Pro-Palestinian groups and Black Lives Matter have previously chastised him for refusing to use the term occupation. Bakari recently got himself into trouble after tweeting about a fight between a boy named Nicholas Sandmann and a civil rights leader named Nathan Phillips.

He actually backed Nathan, a Native American activist, who said the teen’s actions were improper and that he may be hit in the face. He eventually removed his tweet, stating that his remark about the adolescent was metaphorical. After a while, the teen’s parents filed a lawsuit against CNN, where Sellers worked as an analyst.

He was elected to the House of Representatives for the 90th district of South Carolina at the age of 22. Until 2014, he served there for eight years. Later, he stood for Lieutenant Governor, but Henry McMaster beat him. He has also authored an autobiography titled “My Vanishing Country,” which tells the narrative of African-American working-class folks in rural America.

Bakari Sellers Height, Weight & Measurements

Bakari Sellers stands at a height of over six feet. He is presently 6 feet 3 inches tall (190 cm) and weighs 90 kilograms (198 pounds). At the present, his bodily measurements, such as chest, arms, and waist, are unavailable. In the meanwhile, he has black hair and eyes.

Bakari Sellers’ Wife- Ellen Rucker Carter

In the summer of 2015, he married Ellen and exchanged vows with her. Ellen, his better half, is a co-founder of Rucker Roots, a hair care company. Ellen has a daughter called Kai Michelle with Vince Carter, a star basketball player.