Mildred Loving Interracial Marriage

'Loving Story' Shows Unlikely Civil Rights Heroes

AP | JESSE WASHINGTON | Posted 04.14.2012

Richard Loving looks out from the Jim Crow past with wary eyes, appearing on the screen with a blond crew cut, plaid work shirt, bad teeth and Souther...

"Loving," Hating and Interracial Relationships

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 11.17.2011

Marcia Dawkins

Though this Saturday marks the 43rd anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, discrimination against interracial couples persists.

"Gay, or Straight, Black, or White: Love is Love, Right is Right!" Right?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 11.17.2011

Michael Henry Adams

Many activist gays have readily embraced the notion that "Queers" are "today's African Americans," with marriage equality an issue comparable to earlier more bitter struggles for civil rights.

With Prop 8, Loving Should Be Everyone's Guide

Mikko Alanne | Posted 05.25.2011

Mikko Alanne

The passage of Proposition 8 would mark the first time in our state's history that the Constitution has been amended to rescind rights, rather than to grant them.

Mildred Loving, matriarch of interracial marriage, dies

AP | DIONNE WALKER | Posted 11.17.2011

RICHMOND, Va. — Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling s...