As the year moves us closer to the months that we pay homage on Mother’s and Father’s Day to those who birthed us, nostalgic memories inevitably arise. In Dorothy Roberts’ latest book, “The Mixed ...
It began with a few dozen boxes left behind after the death of her father. DOROTHY ROBERTS: I confronted them because they'd been in my basement for a decade already, and so I wanted to see what was ...
In “The Mixed Marriage Project,” Dorothy Roberts reflects on her anthropologist father’s lifelong project: to document — and promote — interracial marriages like his own. By Julia Scheeres Julia ...
First, some facts: One in 10 Americans are in an interracial or interethnic marriage. Using classifications from the U.S. Census Bureau, interracial marriage was defined as between five racial ...
The right to interracial marriage is now enshrined in New Hampshire state law. Gov. Chris Sununu signed the Marital Freedom Act last week, after it received support in the House and Senate earlier ...
“Virginia is for lovers” may be the state’s travel slogan, but 50 years ago one couple was banished from the state for committing the crime of getting married. Richard Loving, a man of European ...
Severine Brock's first language was Ga, yet it was not surprising when, in 1842, she married Edward Carstensen. He was the last governor of Christiansborg, the fort that, in the eighteenth century, ...