Wis., who is the first openly gay politician elected to the Senate, said the Respect for Marriage Act “unites Americans” and ...

Interracial and inter-ethnic married couples are doing well but face challenges in a highly political world. How they ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — One day in the 1970s, Paul Fleisher and his wife were walking through a department store parking lot when they noticed a group of people looking at them. Fleisher, who is white, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A steady flow of Latino and Asian immigrants has helped push the rate of interracial marriage in the U.S. to one in every 12 couples, according to CBS News. Interracial marriages have climbed to 4.8 ...

Oprah's recent interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle raises many questions about race relations, including those within families after the formation of interracial unions. What does the ...

Interracial marriages have been steadily increasing since the landmark case of Virginia v. Loving, which legalized interracial marriage in 1967. At the time, only 3 percent of marriages were ...

Those searching for more signs of "how far American has come" from its ugly racist past have a new statistic to latch onto today. According to a new Pew study 8.4 percent of all American marriages are ...

Less than 60 years ago, interracial marriage was illegal in some parts of the U.S. In 1958, Mildred and Richard Loving were arrested for being married, as they were an interracial couple living in ...