The celebrity world offers up plenty of examples. Actress Tika Sumpter, who is Black and engaged to a white man, tweeted that white people in relationships with Black people have a duty to fight racism on behalf of their partners. The landmark Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia struck down state bans on interracial marriage in
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In , the U. Supreme Court ruled in the Loving v. Virginia case that marriage across racial lines was legal throughout the country. Intermarriage has increased steadily since then: One-in-six U.
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Tokyo Olympics: Get the full schedule, events and where to watch. When you marry someone, you marry everything that made them who they are, including their culture and race. While marrying someone of a different race can have added challenges, if you go in with your eyes and heart wide open, you can face those challenges together and come out stronger.
June 12th marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court's Loving v. Virginia case that struck down laws prohibiting interracial marriage. More than fifty years later, it seems absurd to most of us that such laws ever existed in the first place. In June, many Americans marked Loving Day —an annual gathering to fight racial prejudice through a celebration of multiracial community. The event takes its name from the Supreme Court ruling in Loving v.