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While there is a lot of debate about racial identity, a mixed racial background is consistent with the Black experience. Despite misinformation, biracial is not a racial identity but a racial descriptor, check out our list of biracial stars from Hollywood to music.

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Sofia Richie, the daughter of Lionel Richie, has made a name for herself with her business endeavors and recent wedding to Elliot Grainge are married! The couple married in the South of France on April 23.

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Actress Lauren London is the daughter of a Black mother and Jewish father. Back in 2011, she told Skin Deep, “If someone thinks I’m not Black enough that’s their issue. I’m okay with who I am and it is what is. I’m a Black woman like my mother, and I love who my father is, and I love both sides of me."

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Meghan Markle's father is white and her mother is Black. Although she was raised by her Black mother, she has said due to her lighter skin, she wasn't treated like a Black woman until she married her husband Prince Harry. The British press was vicious to Markle and there was reportedly racial tension in the Royal Family. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle left the Royal Family in 2021.

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The Academy Award-winning actress has a white mother and a Black father, but she has never played the racially ambiguous card. Halle Berry has proudly stated she is a Black woman because that is what she is seen as, she even said about her daughter Nahla, who has a white father, "I feel she's Black. I'm Black and I'm her mother, and I believe in the one-drop theory."

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Born Helen Folasade Adu, the British singer has a Nigerian father and an English mother. Along with her younger brother, the family lived in Nigeria until her parents split when she was four years old. Back in 2010, she told the Los Angeles she identifies as "more Black than white." (Photo: Kevin Mazur/Child/WireImage)

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J. Cole has a white mother, but said way back in 2011, "I never felt white." He also added that he "can identify" with white culture, but "never have I felt like I am one of them." (photo: John Ricard / BET)

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The Canadian rapper was born to a Black father and Jewish mother. He was even Bar Mitzvah'd when he turned thirteen! (Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

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This rock star's background is as diverse as his music. Lenny Kravitz's mother is the late, great actress Roxie Roker, best known for her role on The Jeffersons. His father, Sy Kravitz, is a television executive. Showbiz runs in his blood. (Photo: Kris Connor/Getty Images)

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Just like her ex-husband Lenny Kravitz, Lisa Bonet is also Black and Jewish. The Cosby Show star's father, who is Black, was an opera singer and her mother, who is white, is a teacher.(Photo: Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage)

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It took a tapestry of cultures to create this work of art. Boris Kodjoe is German and Jewish on his mother's side, and Nigerian on his father's. He was born in Austria and named after a Russian poet. (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for BET's Rip The Runway)

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This chiseled actor is a combination of Black, Irish and French-Canadian. Shemar Moore spent his early years living abroad in Denmark, Bahrain and London before moving back to America. (Photo: Angela Weiss/Getty Images)

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Faith Evans has a Black mother and a white father. Sadly, Evans never met her father. (Photo: Angela Weiss/Getty Images for TV One)

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Easily one of the most beautiful women in the world, Alicia Keys is a mix of Black, Italian, Scottish and Irish. (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

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Mariah Carey has been open with her struggles around racial identity. Her mother is white and her father is Black American. (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images For BET)

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Tiger Woods describes himself as one quarter Black, one quarter Thai, one quarter Chinese, one eighth white and one eighth Native American. He even coined the term "Cablinasian" to describe himself. (Photo: Stuart Franklin/Getty Images)

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Tia and Tamera Mowry, America's favorite twins, grew up as Army brats in Germany, where they were raised by a white father and Black mother. (Photo: Charley Gallay/Getty Images)

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Bob Marley's father was a white Jamaican and his mother was Afro-Jamaican. Marley once said about his background, "Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the Black man's side nor the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from Black and white." (Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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Bob Marley's father was a white Jamaican and his mother was Afro-Jamaican. Marley once said about his background, "Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the Black man's side nor the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from Black and white." (Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)