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Historically, the term apparently refers to the original European settlers who came to the United States and later equated the protections of the U.S. Constitution solely with their own majority ethnicity and race - a tribal and chauvinistic mindset that still governs politics and immigration the world over, from China and Japan to most African and South American countries. Yet the singular transcendent logic of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence was that all people innately were created equal.
Unity in our country will remain skin deep as long as classification according to race is officially endorsed, writes Teo Chuen Tick . I just watched the movie Loving on television.
Republicans in Congress are at risk of being torn apart over the issue of immigration. While many members from purple districts see settling the Dreamer issue as vital for their re-elections, others from more solidly red states want to restrict new legal immigration and deport anyone living here illegally.
A new historic marker will be dedicated in Caroline County today to tell the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, the couple whose U.S. Supreme Court case led to the legalization of interracial marriage across the country.
Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving met in high school and fell in love in Caroline County in the 1950s. They decided to marry when Mildred became pregnant at 18. At the time, they couldn't wed in Virginia: Mildred was of African American and Indian descent, Richard was white and the state prohibited interracial marriages.
Sterling K. Brown poses with the award for best performance by an actor in a TV drama at the FOX Golden Globes after-party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 7, 2018. The dominant social issue of Sunday's Golden Globes was combating sexual harassment and sexual assault against women in the entertainment industry, an issue that dominated headlines for months following accusations against Hollywood powerhouse Harvey Weinstein.
In a televised interview with the McClatchy News Service on June 25, 1969, Earl Warren, the legendary 14th chief justice of the United States, was asked to single out the most important case of his tenure on the bench, which began in 1953. Warren, who had retired from the high tribunal just two days earlier, could have named any number of high-profile rulings: Brown v.
In 1958, shortly after their wedding, Mildred and Richard Loving were arrested in their Virginia home by local police for the crime of being married. Richard was white.
For the first time in state history, Florida is expecting to execute a white man Thursday for killing a black person - and it plans to do so with the help of a drug that has never been used before in any U.S. execution. Barring a stay, Mark Asay, 53, is scheduled to die by lethal injection after 6 p.m. Asay was convicted by a jury of two racially motivated, premeditated murders in Jacksonville in 1987.
Many women's organizations commemorate Equal Pay Day, which this year was April 5. It meant that women, in general, would have had to work all of 2016, and until April 5, 2017, to earn the same amount of money that a White man earned in 2016. Few will recognize July 31, 2017, the day that the pay for African American women catch up to the 2016 earnings of White men-seven extra months.
Between 2008 and 2016, the media were unapologetic about their adoration of President Barack Obama. Now, they are energized by their thorough loathing of President Donald Trump.
In this still image from "The Big Sick," stand-up comic, actor and writer Kumail Nanjiani pitches woo to Zoe Kazan, the on-screen counterpart of Nanjiani's real-life wife and "Sick" screenplay co-writer Emily V. Gordon. In "The Big Sick," stand-up jokester Kumail Nanjiani describes acceptable professions for a Pakistani-American.
EDITOR'S NOTE: On June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court was wrapping up the final orders for the term. Among the cases before them was that of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple who had been sentenced to a year in jail for violating Virginia's ban on marriage between people of different races.
In 1958, three years before an interracial union produced Barack Obama, 4 percent of Americans told Gallup that they approved of interracial marriage. Like Obama, the U.S. has traveled a long, long way since then.
In 1958, three years before an interracial union produced Barack Obama, 4 percent of Americans told Gallup that they approved of interracial marriage. Like Obama, the U.S. has traveled a long, long way since then.
On June 12, 2017, it will have been 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court decided that Americans should in fact be allowed to marry they want. Since then, many American couples have availed themselves of that right, although white people remain much less likely to marry another race than people of other races, according to Five times as many people who married in 2015 chose partners from a different race or ethnicity as those who married in 1967.
Watching the triumphalist parade of Trump Administration officials at CPAC this week, it would be easy to believe that American conservatism has reached new heights of lasting power. Republicans now control not only Congress and the Presidency, but the majority of governor's mansions and statehouses nationwide.
The Arkansas Senat e fell a vote short today of approving resolution calling on Congress to propose a constitutional convention to ban same-sex marriage and then followed with a similar vote on an amendment aimed at banning abortion. The vote was 17-7 on the marriage resolution and 17-6 on the abortion measure.
'Fame can change things': Aaron Rodgers' chiropractor dad speaks out to confirm he's not spoken to his son in over TWO YEARS after the NFL star started dating Olivia Munn Is this proof America is preparing for war with Russia? US plane is spotted in a mock dogfight with a Russian jet above the top secret Area 51 base Russia shows off its firepower with new video showing tank-based missile system capable of shooting down US and NATO warheads Brennan fights back: CIA boss insists the dirty dossier DIDN'T come from inside the intelligence community and says he'd never even read the claims before they were published Trump to take the oath on TWO BIBLES: the same bible used by 'Honest Abe' Lincoln, along with his own family bible 'You couldn't find no black woman?' The shocking moment a racist man hurls abuse at interracial couple as they eat and asks whether white women are 'even humans' ... (more)