3.24: The Loving Story
First Name Basis Podcast
Jasmine Bradshaw
5 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Richard and Mildred Loving never expected to be Civil Rights icons, they simply wanted to love one another and grow their beautiful family. Listen in to hear how the Lovings took their interracial love story to the Supreme Court and abolished racist marriage laws across the country. Be sure to download the free Loving coloring page that goes along with the episode at firstnamebasis.org/lovingdaycoloring.
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Song Credit: “Sleeper” by Steve Adams” and “Dive Down” by VYEN
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 3, Episode 24, The Loving Story. |
| 0:13.0 | Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home. |
| 0:23.6 | First Name Basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your family and a changemaker in your community. |
| 0:29.3 | Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the world we want, |
| 0:35.0 | a world that reflects our values of inclusion, compassion, and |
| 0:39.6 | courage. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be on this journey with you. |
| 0:48.8 | Hello, First Name Basis, fam. I am so glad you are here it's loving week i know that loving day is just a day but i decided that |
| 1:00.9 | we should celebrate for the whole week so it's loving week over here at first name basis and if you're |
| 1:07.2 | not sure what i'm talking about don't't worry. The episode will explain it all. |
| 1:12.1 | Today, we are celebrating Richard and Mildred Loving, who took their interracial love story |
| 1:17.1 | all the way to the Supreme Court. |
| 1:20.0 | And as many of you know, I am working on a special Loving Day episode that will include |
| 1:26.4 | all of your interracial love stories. So I asked you to submit |
| 1:31.4 | love stories and to explain to me what does Loving Day mean to you if you are in an interracial |
| 1:38.7 | relationship. And I have heard from so many of you, I cannot wait for all of you to hear this episode. It's going to be so |
| 1:45.4 | magical. If you are a crier, get your tissues ready. So that will be out on Saturday on June 12th, |
| 1:52.9 | which is actually Loving Day. Today, what I'm going to share with you is the story of Richard and Mildred |
| 1:59.5 | loving. And I actually pulled this episode from |
| 2:03.1 | our bite-sized black history program. So if you're not sure what I'm talking about, |
| 2:09.7 | bite-sized black history is a program that I created so that you can share amazing black Americans |
| 2:15.6 | from history with the little ones in your life that you love. So if you're a |
| 2:20.1 | teacher or if you're a parent, this program is absolutely perfect for you. I have 12 bite-sized |
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