In “The Mixed Marriage Project,” Dorothy Roberts reflects on her anthropologist father’s lifelong project: to document — and promote — interracial marriages like his own.

NPR's Michel Martin asks professor Dorothy Roberts about her new memoir, "The Mixed Marriage Project," about her father's quest to challenge white supremacy by studying interracial couples in Chicago.

Dorothy Roberts' parents, a white anthropologist and a Black woman from Jamaica, spent years interviewing interracial couples ...

Roberts based the book on a collection of interviews her father conducted with interracial couples in Chicago between the 1930s and the 1980s.

MacArthur Fellow Dorothy Roberts explores the impact of anti-Black racism on interracial families.

Mildred and Richard Loving, pictured in 1965, were charged with violating a Virginia law that criminalized marriage between people classified as "white" and "colored." The couple took their case to ...

Marrying a white woman was the hardest thing I have ever done. Not in the moment. Dating her, courting her, and falling in love with her was easy. I married a truly special woman. When I vowed to ...

WASHINGTON -- Melting pot or racial divide? The growth of interracial marriages is slowing among U.S.-born Hispanics and Asians. Still, blacks are substantially more likely than before to marry whites ...

Pope Paul VI last week lifted the ban of excommunication against Catholics who marry outside the Roman Church, and in several other ways softened “the stiffness of present legislation” on mixed ...

In 1958, newlyweds Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving — a black woman and a white man — were indicted on charges of violating Virginia’s ban on interracial marriages and banished from their home state.

China says it has sovereignty over the democratically governed island of Taiwan. Taiwan says no and is in the midst of buying nearly $400 million of U.S. arms to defend itself. And yet, there's ...