Interracial couples still face strife 50 years after Loving

Monday, June 12, 2017

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 discrimination, disapproval and sometimes hostility from their fellow Americans.

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