Coffee Break| More...
 

Interracial Marriage

Louisiana Interracial Marriage-Refusing Judge Keith Bardwell Quits

AP | MELINDA DESLATTE | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jay Dardenne, Mary Landrieu Interracial Marriage, Keith Bardwell, Jay Dardenne Keith Bardwell, David Vitter Interracial Marriage, Louisiana Interracial Marriage, Keith Bardwell Interracial Marriage, Interracial Marriage, Bobby Jindal Interracial Marriage, Keith Bardwell Quits, Politics News

BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana justice of the peace who refuses to marry interracial couples resigned Tuesday, after weeks of calls for his oust...

Read Whole Story

Keith Bardwell Quits: Justice Of The Peace Who Refused To Give Interracial Couple Marriage License Resigns

AP | MELINDA DESLATTE | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Keith Bardwell, Marriage, Louisiana, Keith Bardwell Interracial Marriage, Louisiana Interracial Marriage, Interracial Marriage, Justice-Interracial-Marriage, Keith Bardwell Quits, Keith Bardwell Resigns, Politics News

BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana justice of the peace who refuses to marry interracial couples resigned Tuesday, after weeks of calls for his oust...

Read Whole Story

RNC Facebook Photo Taken Down: Racist Anti-Obama Picture

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: GOP Racism, Rnc President Obama, Rnc Facebook, Rnc Facebook Post, Loving v. Virginia, Obama Race Issue, Rnc, Obama Racism, President Obama, Conservative Racism, Interracial Marriage, Rnc Racism, Politics News

The Republican National Committee came under fire after a user posted a controversial photo on its Facebook page. The RNC "fan" upload features a pict...

Read Whole Story

Time For Justice To Do The Right Thing

Bill de Blasio | Posted 10.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Politics, Race, Civil Rights, Keith Bardwell, Jungle Fever, Spike Lee, Barack-Obama, Justice-Department-Civil-Rights-Division, Interracial Marriage, Justice Department, Public Advocate, New York News
Bill de Blasio

Whether it's an interracial couple in Louisiana denied a marriage, or that blacks and Hispanics are 90% of the people frisked by NYC police, no place is immune to our history of racial struggle.

Read Post

What's Love Got to Do With It

Stephanie Wash | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Keith Bardwell, Interracial Marriage, Politics News
Stephanie Wash

America fought too hard to erase the color barriers. Let's not refuse service to those who choose to love one another.

Read Post

Keith Bardwell Explains Refusal To Perform Interracial Marriage (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Judge Interracial Marriage, Justice Interracial Marriage, Keith Bardwell, Interracial Marriage, Politics News

The Louisiana Justice of the Peace who refused to perform an interracial marriage was interviewed on CBS News Monday morning and tried to explain his ...

Read Whole Story

My Super Great Greek Boyfriend

Chelsea-Lyn Rudder | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Interracial Dating, Black Women, College, African American Women, Dating, Greeks, Interracial Marriage, Graduate School, Love, New York City, Single Women, Love Lives, New York News
Chelsea-Lyn Rudder

In my personal fairytale I have always imagined a black prince charming at the end of the aisle, and that has influenced my choices in terms of dating.

Read Post

Marie Claire's Asian "Trophy Wives": We're Not Only Fetish Objects, We're Brain-Dead, Too

Disgrasian | Posted 09.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Interracial Dating, Exoticism, Wendi Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch Wendi Deng, Sexual Politics, Asian Americans, Interracial Marriage, Marie Claire, Soon-Yi Previn, Orientalism, Suzie Wong, Marie Claire Asian Trophy Wives Article, Fetishes, Asians, Richard Bernstein, Asian Fetish, Sex, Trophy Wives, Geishas, Sexual Fetishes, Media News
Disgrasian

The complications of sexual politics notwithstanding, fetishists are easy to spot. They come at you with their prayer-bead bracelets and their suspiciously in-depth knowledge of your "culture."

Read Post

Barack Obama is Not Black

Earnest Harris | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Census, Mixed Race, Racism, Interracial Marriage, Race, Mixed Ethnicity, Barack Obama, Politics News
Earnest Harris

Barack Obama is both black and white and he is neither black nor white, and he is mixed and he is half. He is all of those things and he is none of those things.

Read Post

Never Mind the Race Haters, Remember Loving Day

John Ridley | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sotomayor Racism, Racism, Marriage, Race, Interracial Marriage, Loving Day, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
John Ridley

Take a moment on this June 12th to look at where our nation once was and where we are now, and take solace in knowing that we are headed in a better direction.

Read Post

How the Catholic Church Fought for Interracial Marriage and What It Means for Gay Rights

Blaise Zerega | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Political News, Catholic Church, fora.tv, California Gay Marriage, Proposition 8, Interracial Marriage, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Blaise Zerega

It was the Catholic Church that stepped forward to successfully challenge anti-miscegenation law. How much longer before the law of the land applies to all its citizens, gay and straight alike?

Read Post

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

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Civil Liberties, Lesbian, George W. Bush, Gays and Lesbians, Harry-Belafonte, African-American History, Clarence Thomas, Civil Rights, Edna Thomas, Gay Rights, Walter Nagel, Tiger Woods, Racism, Frederick Douglass, African-American Issues, Jasmyne Cannick, Sammy Davis Jr., Phillip Johnson, Pearl Bailey, Olivia Whyndham, Michael Bloomberg, Walter-White, Mildred Loving Interracial Marriage, Lena Horne, Interacial Relationships, Interacial-Sex, Interracial Marriage, Jimmie Daniels, Gays in the Military, Seal, Martin Luther King, Jack Johnson, Homophobia, California Gay Marriage Ban, Bayard Rustin, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Sidney Poitier, Living News
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.

Read Post

Barack Hussein Obama: Born To Be Hurt?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mixed Race, Passing, Miscegenation, City College, Life on the Color Line, Walter White, Philippa Duke Schuyler, Composition in Black and White, Interacial Relationships, Harlem Renaissance, The Life of Philippa Schuyler, Race, Mixed Race Childern, Barack Hussein Obama, Interracial-Marriage, Tragic Mulato, Harvard University, Tiger Woods, Interacial Sex, Alicia Keys, Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Born to Be Hurt, Gregory H. Williams, Imitation of Life, George Schuyler, Columbia, Halleberry, Entertainment News
Michael Henry Adams

--

Read Post

Top 10: Movies with Steamy Interracial Couples

Twanna A. Hines | Posted 03.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hollywood Couples, Interracial Dating, Interracial Marriage, Interracial Relationships, Interracial Sex, Barack Obama, Loving vs. Virginia, Margaret Cho, Entertainment News
Twanna A. Hines

Sex pheromones flow freely as Americans make interracial sexytime. Since the 1967 Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court decision struck down anti-miscegena...

Read Post

Even Same-Sex Marriage Is a Basic Civil Right

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chief Justice Earl Warren, Loving v. Virginia, Nuremberg Laws, Rick Warren, Gay and Lesbian Rights, Saddleback Church, Kenneth Starr, Interracial Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News
Menachem Rosensaft

Republicans who tolerate their party's platform calling for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage should be reminded of a similar constitutional amendment to prohibit interracial marriage.

Read Post

With Prop 8, Loving Should Be Everyone's Guide

Mikko Alanne | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mildred Loving Interracial Marriage, California, Gay Rights, Proposition 8, Interracial Marriage, Gay Marriage, Politics News
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.

Read Post

Why They Hate Obama: Miscegenation and Other Nightmares of the Racist Political Imagination

Stephen Ducat | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Interracial Marriage, Christian Fundamentalism, Barack Obama, Anti-Obama Racism, Politics News
Stephen Ducat

At a deep level, most of us make use of racial categories to navigate the world, manage its vague and unseen threats, and define our worth.

Read Post

Freakonomics: Interracial Sex Makes Us More Beautiful

Twanna A. Hines | Posted 09.19.2008 | Style

Read More: Mixed Race, Freakonomics, Sex, Dating, Steven Levitt, Race, Interracial Marriage, Interracial Sex, Style News
Twanna A. Hines

I was raised to be a strong black woman who stuck it to The Man, but I've spent the past decade sticking it with him. Several of them.

Read Post

Eulogy for "Marriage Evasion" in Massachusetts: 1913-2008

Edward Stein | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Massachusetts, California Gay Marriage, Interracial Marriage, Loving vs. Virginia, Defense of Marriage Act, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Edward Stein

On July 31, Massachusetts finally repealed a law passed in 1913 that prohibited residents from other jurisdictions from marrying in Massachusetts if they were unable to marry in their home state.

Read Post

Gays, Hate, Blacks, and the Bible

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Homophobia, Curse of Ham, Colin Powell, California Supreme Court, Bible, Racism, Christianity, Interracial Marriage, John Boswell, Loving vs. Virginia, Homsexuality, Home News
Leonce Gaiter

The California Court has drawn on apt precedence in voting to end a ban on gay marriage. Blacks and gays have both endured centuries of hatred based on perversions of original biblical texts.

Read Post

Mildred Loving, matriarch of interracial marriage, dies

AP | DIONNE WALKER | Posted 05.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Mildred Loving, Interracial Marriage, Mildred Loving Interracial Marriage, Mildred Loving Dies, Living News

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

Read Whole Story