Society / In a new memoir, author Dorothy Roberts explores why interracial attraction can’t be disentangled from the larger ...

Omelia and Alvin Garner married in 1968, just nine months after falling in love while working together at a local restaurant.

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

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.

"Bob’s sparring with his teenage daughter reminded me of the many debates I had with my father about what he believed," writes author Dorothy Roberts ...

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 ...

This year marks the 55th anniversary of the Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, which struck down anti-miscegenation laws in 16 states and allowed persons of different races to marry from coast to ...