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Incognegro by Mat Johnson7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() And then you have legal test case of who you are,” Johnson said. You have the larger community, how that larger community sees who you are. The series is titled “The Loving Generation.”įrom Melissa Harris-Perry to Mat Johnson, and Panama Jackson, “The Loving Generation” features a diversity of voices examining the borderland between “blackness” and “whiteness.” And it would take nearly a decade before all state laws prohibiting interracial marriage were struck down.Ī new series from tells the story of Americans born to one black parent and one white parent after the 1967 Supreme Court decision. And he told us to get up and that we was under arrest.” ![]() “And I woke up and it was a policeman standing beside the bed. and I saw these lights,” Mildred recalled. “ The night we were arrested, I guess it was about 2 a.m. About four months after their marriage, the Virginia county they lived in issued a criminal indictment charging the Lovings with violating Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage. In 1958, a Virginia couple, Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, married in the District of Columbia. ![]()
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