interracial

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Father Leahy’s plan was for St. Benedict’s to be a “small, interracial school,” designed to address “the educational problems of our time,” that was “not going to shovel everyone into college.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

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

In 1967, the Supreme Court declared interracial marriage legal nationwide.

From Salon • Aug. 4, 2025

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

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2025

He assigned the following probabilities to the characteristics in question: yellow car—1/10; man with a mustache—1/4; woman with a ponytail— 1/10; woman with blond hair—1/3; black man with a beard—1/10; interracial couple in a car—1/1,000.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos