April 15th marks the world premiere of a moving documentary of the famous case of Mildred and Richard Loving a landmark civil rights struggle resolved in 1967 by the United States Supreme Court declaring Virginia’s anti-miscegenation statute – which had been used to arrest the Lovings – unconstitutional.
By including photos by Grey Villet and rare and never-before-seen 16mm archival footage the film-makers shed intimate light on the injustice of the Loving’s decade-long plight. The unanimous 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia overturned all remaining anti-miscegenation laws in America, vindicating the Lovings who had been arrested in 1958 in their Virginia home.
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Zennie Abraham