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Mildred and Richard Loving in 1965. Credit Estate of Grey Villet


How Interracial Love Is Saving America

How Interracial Love Is Saving America

As a descendant of slaves and slaveholders, I embody uncomfortable incongruities — just as America does. In “Notes on the State of Virginia,” Thomas Jefferson wrote with anguish about the risks of amalgamation, or interracial sex, to a new nation. Whites were...