We must both celebrate and honor our right to marry whomever we want and work to ensure its protection in the future. The United States has a long history of criminalizing, surveilling, and controlling Black and brown families and the mixing of races. Virginia will never be overturned, be cautious and vigilant. Virginia, signaling a new threat to interracial marriage as we know it.
In the recent Supreme Court leaked draft opinion on the Dobbs case, the legal reasoning that Justice Alito used to overturn Roe could be applied to undo Loving v. This year, Loving Day has a bit of a weightier feel to it. Virginia which made interracial marriage legal across the United States. June 12th, 2022 marks the 55th anniversary of the landmark case Loving v.