Interracial marriage

Seasoned actor Alfonso Ribeiro, famous for playing Carlton Banks on the hit '90s sitcom 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,' feels like he doesn't get love from the Black community in real life due to being married to a white woman.

“My white Republican husband is starting to hate me because the longer we live through this administration the “BLACKER” I become,” a heartbroken Maryland woman wrote on Twitter over the weekend. Her confession sparked debate after she revealed how President Trump and right-wing media are straining her marriage. In a Twitter rant on Saturday, a woman by the name Glass […]

Tamara Mowry Housley and her sister Tia Mowry Hardrict are the products of an interracial marriage. But Mowry Housley, who married a white man, says she gets way more criticism than she expected for her interracial marriage. (Tia, as most know is married to African-American actor Cory Hardrict).She says that her Christian faith has helped […]

In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled, in the case of Loving v. Virginia, that banning interracial marriage was unconstitutional. The couple at the center of the landmark ruling, Richard and Mildred Loving, are now the focus of a motion picture, Loving, to be released this fall. Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter were Virginia natives who married […]

A former school officer in Knox County, Tennessee has filed a $250,000 lawsuit against the district and the city charging that he was wrongfully terminated because his supervisor took offense to his marriage to a Black woman, writes USA Today.

The case of Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, a married interracial couple from Virginia, became part of the national conversation back in June 1967. The young couple were arrested and jailed because of their state’s anti-miscegenation law, which 16 states also had on their books. Their case ultimately went all the way to the U.S. […]

“Let’s just say its not a stereotype that black women are less submissive and harder to deal with. Being around all them black women made me really miss my wife.”-Taye Diggs Sista’s, now before you go getting your panties in a knot, this so-called quote was falsely attributed to “The Best Man Holiday” actor Taye […]

Over the weekend, black women were honored during BET’s annual “Black Girls Rock!” event which got us thinking. We know Black women are amazing and deserve all of the kudos in world but do the men see it? In response, we posed the question to our Facebook page: “If “Black girls rock” (because we know […]