Flora Hawk as Mildred Jeter Loving, left, and director Denyce Graves-Montgomery in rehearsal for “Loving v. Virginia.” [Sunroom Video Production Co.] The opera stage is not a history classroom, but it ...
They could have called it “Virginia Hasn’t Always Been for Lovers,” after Phyl Newbeck’s book, subtitled “Interracial Marriage Bans and the Case of Richard and Mildred Loving.” But composer Damien ...
The opera opens in the home of a doting but nervous married couple. They’re dressed casually — she in a pink nightgown, he in jeans and a flannel — but the mood is anything but. “A strange car pulled ...
WASHINGTON — Fifty years after Mildred and Richard Loving’s landmark legal challenge shattered the laws against interracial marriage in the U.S., some couples of different races still talk of facing ...
NORFOLK, Va. — Mildred and Richard Loving's marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court case in 1967 that struck down laws banning interracial marriage. Now, over 50 years later, their story is being ...
A century after the end of the Civil War, more than a dozen states still had laws on the books banning interracial marriage. Enter Mildred and Richard Loving, a Virginia couple whose June 12, 1967 ...
Virginia Opera celebrates its 50th anniversary with “Loving v. Virginia,” a brand new work about the couple who legalized interracial marriage. The men burst into the bedroom in the middle of the ...
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