6.5: Your Loving Day Stories 2
First Name Basis Podcast
Jasmine Bradshaw
5 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
I’ve always thought Mildred and Richard Loving’s last name was kismet.
Mildred was a Black woman and Richard was a white man who loved each other, and just wanted to keep on loving each other.
On June 12, 1967, Richard and Mildred Loving won their landmark civil rights case against the state of Virginia. Because of the Lovings, states were no longer permitted to create racist laws that would prevent heterosexual couples from marrying one another because of the color of their skin. Their story is beautiful, powerful and inspiring.
Every year on June 12, we celebrate the Lovings, their love, and the love of interracial couples everywhere. As the product of an interracial marriage who is in an interracial marriage myself, I will be forever grateful for the Lovings.
In this episode you will hear interracial couples from all across the country share the importance of Loving Day and what it means to them and their families. If you’re anything like me you’ll need a few tissues for this one. And a special thank you to those who sent their stories and shared their love with us. Happy Loving Day!
Juneteenth is coming up next month, and we have an exciting program to help you celebrate! Juneteenth Jubilee is our brand-new program that gives you everything you need to have a meaningful Juneteenth celebration dinner.
It includes a cookbook, a cooking show with my dad, a meal planner, reflection questions and more! Trust me, this is something your family is going to want — both for the yummy food and for the impactful conversations.
The program is available now! So click here to invest in this resource to create a meaningful celebration for your family!
Don’t forget to use the code LOVING15 for $15 off your purchase until 6/13/22!
Articles, Studies & Podcasts Referenced in the Episode
First Name Basis Podcast, Season 3, Episode 24, “The Loving Story”
First Name Basis Podcast, Season 3, Episode 25, “Your Loving Day Stories”
Song Credit: “Sleeper” by Steve Adams,” “Dive Down” by VYEN, and “Blue Dream” by Cheel
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 6, Episode 5, Your Loving Day Stories, too. |
| 0:14.4 | Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home. |
| 0:22.5 | First-name basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader |
| 0:27.1 | in your family and a changemaker in your community. |
| 0:30.6 | Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the world |
| 0:35.7 | we want, a world that reflects our values of inclusion, |
| 0:39.8 | compassion, and courage. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be on this |
| 0:47.0 | journey with you. Hello, First Same Basis, fam. I am so glad you are here. And happy Loving Day! We are here with a special |
| 0:58.5 | bonus episode of First Name Basis to celebrate Loving Day with you. And you probably heard in the title, |
| 1:05.4 | I said, Your Loving Day Stories too, because this is the second year that we are making a very special |
| 1:11.9 | loving day episode including all of your love stories. I can't wait to share these |
| 1:16.6 | stories with you. They are so beautiful. Break out your tissues for real, for real. I was listening |
| 1:22.3 | to them and looking at your photos and thinking of your beautiful families and just so stinking grateful for the celebration |
| 1:29.2 | that we get to have today. So if you're sitting there thinking, wait a minute, what is Loving Day? |
| 1:35.0 | Let me fill you in. So Richard and Mildred Loving were civil rights leaders almost by happenstance. |
| 1:43.8 | Like they did not necessarily want to be |
| 1:47.4 | front and center of the movement, but they had to in order to protect their family. So Mildred |
| 1:53.5 | was black and Richard was white and they met when they were very young. Mildred was 11 and |
| 1:58.7 | Richard was 17. They went on to be high school sweethearts and they |
| 2:03.6 | got married because they were absolutely obsessed with each other. But they lived in Virginia. |
| 2:10.0 | And in Virginia, they had a law that was called the Racial Integrity Act. And even though it has |
| 2:15.4 | the word integrity in it, it is very racist. It was a super racist law |
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