Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mildred and Richard Loving, pictured in 1965, were charged with violating a Virginia law that criminalized marriage between people ...

Speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., who is the first openly gay politician elected to the Senate, said the Respect for Marriage Act “unites Americans” and removes ...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The number of interracial marriages in the United States increased more than ten-fold between 1970 and 2000, according to a new report which concludes that U.S. attitudes towards ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty years after Mildred and Richard Loving's landmark legal challenge shattered the laws against interracial marriage in the U.S., some couples of different races still talk of ...

The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family features an intimate exploration of identity and relationships through the lens of mixed-race families. The memoir delves into themes of ...

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 ...

Christian nationalist commentator and pastor Dale Partridge faced backlash after saying interracial marriage is not ...

In 1958, Richard Loving, a White man, and his wife Mildred, a Black woman, were arrested for the crime of being married. Although the couple had been legally wed in the District of Columbia, they ...

WASHINGTON - Melting pot or racial divide? The growth of interracial marriages is slowing among U.S.-born Hispanics and Asians. Still, blacks are substantially more likely than before to marry whites.

The Vermont Legislature will be taking up the issue of same-sex marriage this year in the form of S. 115, An Act Relating to Civil Marriage. As a lawmaker, my constituents in Burlington and advocates ...

“Virginia is for lovers” may be the state’s travel slogan, but 50 years ago one couple was banished from the state for committing the crime of getting married. Richard Loving, a man of European ...