Mildred and Richard Loving, pictured in 1965, were charged with violating a Virginia law that criminalized marriage between people classified as "white" and "colored." The couple took their case to ...

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 ...

Marrying a white woman was the hardest thing I have ever done. Not in the moment. Dating her, courting her, and falling in love with her was easy. I married a truly special woman. When I vowed to ...

In 1958, newlyweds Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving — a black woman and a white man — were indicted on charges of violating Virginia’s ban on interracial marriages and banished from their home state.

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 ...

They say that when you marry your spouse, you also marry their family. These words couldn’t be truer. Sadly enough, these outside forces are what led to the demise of my first marriage — which ...

“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 ...

Interracial marriage in the U.S. is far more common than it has ever been, with a record 8.4 percent of all marriages being between people of different racial backgrounds, a new Pew Research Center ...