Speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., who is the first openly gay politician elected to the Senate, said the Respect for Marriage Act “unites Americans” and removes ...

A recent Vatican document on marriage revives troubling assumptions about Africa and polygamy. Sr. Leonida Katunge asks: Why ...

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 ...

The right to interracial marriage is now enshrined in New Hampshire state law. Gov. Chris Sununu signed the Marital Freedom Act last week, after it received support in the House and Senate earlier ...

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 ...

The movie "Loving" tells the story of a mixed-race Caroline County couple – and an important story about Virginia itself. We asked the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities for some insight into ...

Interracial and interethnic marriages have been rising in the United States for decades, with every state experiencing an increase in the percentage of interethnic and interracial married households, ...

“Virginia is for lovers” may be the state’s travel slogan, but 50 years ago one couple was banished from the state for committing the crime of getting married. Richard Loving, a man of European ...