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 ...

When my father died, I inherited hundreds of transcripts from interviews he conducted with interracial couples in Chicago. He ...

Almost a decade after her father's death, legal scholar Dorothy Roberts still had 25 boxes of his research that she had yet to sort through. When she moved from Chicago to Philadelphia, she brought ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mildred and Richard Loving, pictured in 1965, were charged with violating a Virginia law that criminalized marriage between people ...

Thirty years ago, my maman gave a speech about why she was choosing to keep her last name—at her own wedding. Standing in front of 150 of my father’s family and friends, she squared her shoulders, ...

Dorothy Roberts' parents, a white anthropologist and a Black woman from Jamaica, spent years interviewing interracial couples in Chicago. Her... A daughter reexamines her own family story in 'The ...

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 ...