Mildred and Richard Loving at a press conference after the Supreme Court ruled that their interracial marriage was legal in Loving v. VirginiaFrancis Miller / Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flora Hawk as Mildred Jeter Loving, left, and director Denyce Graves-Montgomery in rehearsal for “Loving v. Virginia.” [Sunroom ...

Fifty-three years ago on June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state bans against interracial marriage. The landmark legal challenge was brought to the nation's highest court by a Virginia ...

Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, first met when she was 11 and he was 17. He was a family friend and over the years they courted. After she became pregnant, they married ...

The opera opens in the home of a doting but nervous married couple. They’re dressed casually — she in a pink nightgown, he in jeans and a flannel — but the mood is anything but. “A strange car pulled ...

Sixty years ago, Life Magazine photographer Grey Villet photographed Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial married couple who had been arrested and convicted under Virginia’s anti-miscegenation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — An event in Grand Rapids on Saturday will celebrate the legalization of interracial marriage in the ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Mildred and Richard Loving's marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court case in 1967 that struck down laws banning interracial marriage. Now, over 50 years later, their story is being ...

A century after the end of the Civil War, more than a dozen states still had laws on the books banning interracial marriage. Enter Mildred and Richard Loving, a Virginia couple whose June 12, 1967 ...

This Jan. 26, 1965 file photo shows Mildred Loving and her husband Richard P Loving. Fifty years after Mildred and Richard Loving’s landmark legal challenge shattered the laws against interracial ...

Recently, I viewed a film, “The Loving Story,” at the Virginia Historical Society about the Virginia couple, Mildred and Richard Loving, whose love transcended what was then accepted by society.