- Son of African-American Civil Rights leader James Forman.
- Grandson of 'Jessica Mitford', author of "The American Way of Death" and "Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business", and great-nephew of novelist Nancy Mitford.
- Brother of James Forman, Jr, a professor at Yale Law School.
- Is of African-American, European, and Native American descent.
- In the movie Son of the South, Chaka Forman plays his own father, the Civil Rights leader James Forman Sr. As executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for much of the 1960s, James Forman Sr. played an essential role in many of the seminal events of the Civil Rights movement, including the freedom rides, the Birmingham movement, and the Selma-to-Montgomery marches.
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