Loving

Loving is the real-life story of courage and commitment as an interracial couple fights for marriage equality in the case that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court. Richard (Edgerton) and Mildred (Negga) Loving fell in love and were married in 1958. The couple had grown up in Central Point, a small town in Virginia that was more integrated than surrounding areas in the American South. Yet it was the State of Virginia, where they were making their home and starting a family, that first jailed and then banished them. Richard and Mildred eloped with their children to the inner city of Washington, D.C. While relatives made them feel welcome there, the more urban environment did not feel like home to them. Ultimately, the pull of their roots in Virginia would spur Mildred to try to find a way back. Their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation of the right to marry. Richard and Mildred returned home and their love story has become an inspiration to couples ever since. (Gary Reber)