interracial

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He later backed the new president's decision to support gay marriage, comparing the situation to the earlier struggle against laws in the country that had barred interracial marriage.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

Under IWW organizers, “Bread and Roses” became the first successful interracial, cross-ethnic industrial strike in U.S. history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

In the 1960s, an encounter with extraterrestrials leaves an interracial couple grappling with their experiences while a lesbian couple fashions their own love story in a time of queer repression.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025

Virginia, which overturned Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2025

It is as if anyone who proposed repealing a stupid law, like the one forbidding interracial marriage, must be a black-cloaked, bomb-clutching anarchist.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker