Word-Up aims to bring you exerpts from biographies and interviews with mixed-race celebrities, those in mixed-race relationships and those who have been trans racially adopted.

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Jobi McAnuff - Footballer 'People tend to see me as black, but there's a big difference between black and mixed race. I can identify with Tiger Woods on that.' more...	Rachel Yankey - Footballer 'I felt I had to explain. I said that my dad didn't bring me up, I didn't grow up eating African food.' more...
Curtis Davies - Footballer 'Choosing which room to go into? That's like choosing who to save from a burning building, your mum or your dad.' more...	David James - Footballer People always commented on pieces of me - my hair, my colour - no one ever said anything nice about the whole of me.' more...

Celebrity News Stories

Halle Berry
'They didn’t like me because I was black. That was the beginning of my trying to be what I thought people wanted to be.'

Melanie Brown
'There are a lot of kids growing up who don't feel they belong anywhere. I had problems knowing where I fitted in sometimes.’

Mariah Carey
'I could relate to, being the product of an interracial union, though my parents did not wind up happily ever.'

John Conteh
'When she told the old man about it, he roared like a lion, shouting: ‘My children are not half of anything. They are full human beings.’

Craig David
The product of a Jewish mother and West Indian father Singer Craig David says he is 'pleased with the breadth of his gene pool'.

Ryan Giggs
'I am proud of the black blood that runs in my viens. I do not wish to hide my origins, nor make it a subject of conversation.'

Thandie Newton
'I used to feel- as neither white nor black, but as a bridge between both. Now I see myself as black.'