Mosley is African-American and Jewish. That’s gotta get you some mojo.
Mosley was born in California. His mother, Ella (born Slatkin), was Jewish and worked as a personnel clerk; her ancestors had immigrated from Russia.
His father, Leroy Mosley (1924–1993), was an African American from Louisiana who was a supervising custodian at a Los Angeles public school.
His parents tried to marry in 1951 but, though the union was legal in California where they were living, no one would give them a marriage license.