Happy Loving Day

[Tony Longshore]

Loving Day is an educational community project. The name comes from Loving v. Virginia (1967), the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage in the United States. Loving Day celebrations commemorate the anniversary of the Loving decision every year on or around June 12th. Please check out www.lovingday.org for more details, celebrations in your area, ideas for your own Loving Day Celebration (including downloading your own kit), pictures to post in honor of Loving Day, and education into what we ourselves know: that love is color blind.

[Xavier]

I was unaware of an actual day commemorating this decision. Thanks for posting it!

[ken]

I have a book called "interracial intimacies", by Randall Kennedy, and this book talks about the Loving case as well as others, but what fascinated me was the fact that even after the disposition of this case, antimiscegenation laws still remained on the books in many states. Alabama was the last to get rid of their unconstitutional laws in the year of our Lord 2000, but forty percent of the legislature voted to keep the law.... interesting