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.

Dorothy Roberts’ father was a white anthropologist who studied interracial marriages and her mother was a Black woman from Jamaica. She always assumed her parents' relationship inspired her father’s ...

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

Dorothy Roberts, a scholar and author perhaps best known for her 1997 book, “Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty,” grew up hearing about her sociologist father’s ...

She was a white actress, he was a popular Black entertainer, and their relationship elicited racist reactions in 1960, worrying John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign. By Clay Risen May Britt, the ...

May Britt, the Swedish actress whose promising Hollywood career was derailed by her groundbreaking interracial marriage to entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., died Dec. 11 at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana ...

Rhinelander v. Rhinelander was one of the most scandalous trials of the Jazz Age. 100 years later, it reads as a tragedy about the country’s original sin. Credit...Photo illustration by Vartika Sharma ...

Jeri Wirtz, who captivated millions alongside her husband as the duo “Jeri and Mike,” died Dec. 6 at her home. She was 74. The couple’s shared Instagram account announced her death on Monday, ...

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 ...

A source exclusively tells PEOPLE the two are "both committed to the relationship" Jamie McCarthy/Getty (2) Amy Schumer and husband Chris Fischer are "working through normal issues" in their marriage, ...

WILLIAMSBURG — The sixth annual Heal Williamsburg/Heal the Nation Community Forum will take place from 1-4 p.m. Saturday at the Stryker Center. The event will include lunch, arts and crafts and a ...