Dorothy Roberts, author of "The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family", shared her story of recovering ...

NPR's Michel Martin asks professor Dorothy Roberts about her new memoir, "The Mixed Marriage Project," about her father's quest to challenge white supremacy by studying interracial couples in Chicago.

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 ...

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 ...

Penn professor Dorothy Roberts published a memoir about four decades of interracial marriage in Chicago on Tuesday. Roberts, who holds appointments in the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mildred and Richard Loving, pictured in 1965, were charged with violating a Virginia law that criminalized marriage between people ...

When my father died, I inherited hundreds of transcripts from interviews he conducted with interracial couples in Chicago. He ...

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 ...

Almost a decade after her father's death, legal scholar Dorothy Roberts still had 25 boxes of his research that she had yet to sort through. When she moved from Chicago to Philadelphia, she brought ...

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.

China says it has sovereignty over the democratically governed island of Taiwan. Taiwan says no and is in the midst of buying nearly $400 million of U.S. arms to defend itself. And yet, there's ...

You've been married before. Your mate hasn't. Or maybe it's the other way around. This, researchers say, is a new kind of mixed marriage, and it is becoming increasingly common even though potential ...