The Lovings

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 […]

Socio-political funny man, W. Kamau Bell (pictured) was served up a side of racism when an employee at a Berkeley, California eatery mistook him for…

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. […]