Mildred loving

Mildred and Richard Loving with their three children on the front porch of their Virginia home in the late 1960’s.

In 1950, a young man from Central Point, Virginia, went seven miles down the road to hear some music. Seven brothers named the Jeters were on that night, …

The movie “Loving,” out this week, is a beautifully shot, historically significant and likely to be Oscar-nominated portrait of the fantastically named couple responsible for the Supreme Court case…

Find out how a couple in love brought forward the landmark case, Loving v. Virginia, which forever changed the color of marriage in the United States.

#lovingmovie @joeledgerton1 is a pleasure to work with, a phenomenal actor and person, & soon an #Oscar contender.

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Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case (Audiobook)

Interracial couple Richard and Mildred Loving fell in love and were married in 1958. They grew up in Central Point, a small town in Virginia that was more integrated than surrounding areas in the American South. Yet it was the state of Virginia, where they were making their home and starting a family, that first jailed and then banished them. Richard and Mildred relocated with their children to the inner city of Washington, D.C., but the family ultimately tries to find a way back to…