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Biography
Collins Iyare Idehen Jr. (born 1983), better known as Colion Noir, is an American gun rights activist, lawyer, and host of the web series NOIR.
In 2013, the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) recruited him to appear in NRA News videos. Later that year, he appeared at its convention in Houston. Since then, he has become the NRA's "most prominent black commentator," as The Guardian described him in 2017.
Early life
Noir was born Collins Iyare Idehen, Jr. in Houston, Texas, to immigrants from Nigeria, the son of an executive chef father and a registered nurse mother. As an only child, Noir spent his formative years in Houston, Texas.
Education
Noir graduated from high school in Houston. He earned a political science degree from the University of Houston and a J.D. degree from the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University, also in Houston. He first became interested in firearms while a student at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law.