When my father died, I inherited hundreds of transcripts from interviews he conducted with interracial couples in Chicago. He ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — One day in the 1970s, Paul Fleisher and his wife were walking through a department store parking lot when they noticed a group of people looking at them. Fleisher, who is white, ...

In its landmark 1967 Loving v. Virginia ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court finally bestowed protection on interracial marriages. Relationships between black people and white people had always existed, but ...

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 ...

Mississippi law criminalized interracial marriage with life imprisonment shortly after the Civil War. The legal definition of Blackness in Mississippi evolved, eventually adopting the "one-drop" rule ...

A steady flow of Latino and Asian immigrants has helped push the rate of interracial marriage in the U.S. to one in every 12 couples, according to CBS News. Interracial marriages have climbed to 4.8 ...

Oprah's recent interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle raises many questions about race relations, including those within families after the formation of interracial unions. What does the ...

Less than 60 years ago, interracial marriage was illegal in some parts of the U.S. In 1958, Mildred and Richard Loving were arrested for being married, as they were an interracial couple living in ...

Those searching for more signs of "how far American has come" from its ugly racist past have a new statistic to latch onto today. According to a new Pew study 8.4 percent of all American marriages are ...

In 2017, the halls of the Sheltering Arms Institute rehabilitation facility in Virginia became the setting for a love story that would eventually reach millions. Charisma Jamison, 31, then a young ...

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 ...