06/12/2026
** Happy Loving Day! 🖤🤍🤎
Loving really was the right name for this history.
Love should never have needed permission. The fact that something as simple as marrying the person you love had to be fought all the way to the Supreme Court is still absurd to me.
I’m grateful for the Lovings’ courage. My daughter’s marriage, and so many marriages in my family and circle of friends, are part of the legacy they helped make possible.
** For those who didn't know:
Loving Day is observed on June 12 because that is the date, in 1967, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided Loving v. Virginia.
Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Loving, a Black and Native American woman, were married in Washington, D.C. in 1958. When they returned home to Virginia, their marriage was considered illegal under the state’s anti-miscegenation laws. They were arrested in their home, convicted, and forced to leave Virginia or face prison time.
Their case eventually reached the Supreme Court. On June 12, 1967, the Court unanimously ruled that laws banning in*******al marriage were unconstitutional. That decision ended race-based marriage bans across the United States.
