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 ...

This Valentine’s Day season, I am reminded of Mildred Loving’s and St. Valentine’s acts of justice for the fundamental human right to love who you want. Since Trump has taken office, I’m worried about ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The Library of Virginia is celebrating Black History Month with two events in collaboration with Virginia Opera centered around Loving v. Virginia. Richard and Mildred Loving were a ...

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 ...

Feb. 23—Sixty years ago, Life Magazine photographer Grey Villet photographed Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial married couple who had been arrested and convicted under Virginia's ...