Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mildred and Richard Loving, pictured in 1965, were charged with violating a Virginia law that criminalized marriage between people ...
Sixty years ago, Life Magazine photographer Grey Villet photographed Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial married couple who had been arrested and convicted under Virginia’s anti-miscegenation ...
Mrs. Loving’s anger over being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws. By Douglas Martin This obituary was ...
This Valentine’s Day season, I am reminded of Mildred Loving’s and St. Valentine’s acts of justice for the fundamental human right to love who you want. Since Trump has taken office, I’m worried about ...
June 12 marks "Loving Day," the anniversary of the United States legalizing interracial marriages. "The Loving Decision should be remembered as an important moment for civil rights. But it’s also a ...
They could have called it “Virginia Hasn’t Always Been for Lovers,” after Phyl Newbeck’s book, subtitled “Interracial Marriage Bans and the Case of Richard and Mildred Loving.” But composer Damien ...
RICHMOND, Va. — The Library of Virginia is celebrating Black History Month with two events in collaboration with Virginia Opera centered around Loving v. Virginia. Richard and Mildred Loving were a ...
American love stories have a default race: white. If the love story is “interracial,” one person is white, and the other person is not. In a standard American rom-com, the only nonwhite characters are ...