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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many U.S. couples are celebrating what has unofficially become "Loving Day," to mark the anniversary of the country legalizing interracial marriages. On June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court ...

During the time of Jim Crow, racial tensions were high, and laws were created that banned interracial marriages.It’s a topic that fascinated Wendy Rex Atzet, wh ...

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.

(CNN) — The Supreme Court was more than an hour into its feisty debate over gender-affirming care when Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invoked one of the most significant civil rights precedents in the ...

Now that phase one of the holidays is over, it is time for families to prepare for the longer, and often more nettlesome, Christmas season. A bunch of religious and cultural holidays fall around this ...