Society / In a new memoir, author Dorothy Roberts explores why interracial attraction can’t be disentangled from the larger ...

Dorothy Roberts' parents, a white anthropologist and a Black woman from Jamaica, spent years interviewing interracial couples ...

Roberts based the book on a collection of interviews her father conducted with interracial couples in Chicago between the 1930s and the 1980s.

MacArthur Fellow Dorothy Roberts explores the impact of anti-Black racism on interracial families.

Dorothy Roberts’ father was a white anthropologist who studied interracial marriages and her mother was a Black woman from Jamaica. She always assumed her parents' relationship inspired her father’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

WASHINGTON (AP) — EDITOR’S NOTE: On June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court was wrapping up the final orders for the term. Among the cases before them was that of Richard and Mildred Loving, an ...

Pope Paul VI last week lifted the ban of excommunication against Catholics who marry outside the Roman Church, and in several other ways softened “the stiffness of present legislation” on mixed ...