In its landmark 1967 Loving v. Virginia ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court finally bestowed protection on interracial marriages. Relationships between black people and white people had always existed, but ...

Wis., who is the first openly gay politician elected to the Senate, said the Respect for Marriage Act “unites Americans” and ...

Mississippi law criminalized interracial marriage with life imprisonment shortly after the Civil War. The legal definition of Blackness in Mississippi evolved, eventually adopting the "one-drop" rule ...

First, some facts: One in 10 Americans are in an interracial or interethnic marriage. Using classifications from the U.S. Census Bureau, interracial marriage was defined as between five racial ...

On May 31, 2012, in a decision that’s sure to be appealed to the Supreme Court, a federal court struck down as unconstitutional the Defense of Marriage Act, ruling that it unfairly denies equal ...

Many U.S. couples are celebrating what has unofficially become "Loving Day," to mark the anniversary of the country legalizing interracial marriages. On June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court ...

The highly praised, Nancy Buirski-directed documentary The Loving Story will make its television debut this Valentine’s Day on HBO. The documentary details the lives of the high-profile interracial ...

In a new memoir, author Dorothy Roberts explores why interracial attraction can’t be disentangled from the larger forces of race, gender, and power that govern our world. The acclaimed author can’t ...

Mildred Loving never expected her marriage would end up at the Supreme Court. June 14, 2007 — -- "I think marrying who you want is a right no man should have anything to do with. It's a God-given ...