{"id":20290,"date":"2012-01-31T05:26:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T05:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20290"},"modified":"2012-02-25T15:06:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T15:06:54","slug":"the-loving-story-%e2%80%93-hbo-screening-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20290","title":{"rendered":"The Loving Story \u2013 HBO Screening Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/multiracialnetwork.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/24\/the-loving-story-hbo-screening-event\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Loving Story \u2013 HBO Screening Event<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/multiracialnetwork.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracial Network Blog<\/a><br \/>\n2012-01-24<\/p>\n<p>It is a rare occasion for <a href=\"http:\/\/gseis.ucla.edu\/news-events\/student-profiles\/marc-johnston\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Johnston<\/a>, MRN Chair, and Heather Lou, MRN Incoming Chair, to find themselves in the same city outside of the annual <a title=\"ACPA Convention\" href=\"http:\/\/convention.myacpa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ACPA Convention<\/a>. So what do these two fun-loving higher education and student affairs administrators choose to do when they are reunited in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\">City of Angels<\/a>? They attend the amazing HBO Screening of Nancy Buirski\u2019s <a title=\"The Loving Story film\" href=\"http:\/\/lovingfilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Loving Story<\/em><\/a> (2011) at the Simon Wiesenthal <a title=\"Museum of Tolerance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.museumoftolerance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Museum of Tolerance<\/a>, of course!<\/p>\n<p>On a recent evening in LA, Marc and Heather settled into their seats to view the story of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mildred_and_Richard_Loving\" target=\"_blank\">Richard and Mildred Loving<\/a>\u2014an interracial couple arrested and exiled from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a> in 1958 for violating anti-miscegenation laws. The documentary captured footage of the couple\u2019s relationship, family, challenges, and triumphs\u2014including the monumental 1967 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\">Loving v. Virginia<\/a><\/em> Supreme Court case, which struck down anti-miscegenation laws in the <a title=\"anti-miscegenation laws\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14196\" target=\"_blank\">15 states that still had them<\/a>, legalizing interracial marriage across all of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>After viewing <em>The Loving Story<\/em>, Marc and Heather wanted to share their personal thoughts on the documentary, along with potential implications for higher education&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/multiracialnetwork.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/24\/the-loving-story-hbo-screening-event\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Loving Story \u2013 HBO Screening Event Multiracial Network Blog 2012-01-24 It is a rare occasion for Marc Johnston, MRN Chair, and Heather Lou, MRN Incoming Chair, to find themselves in the same city outside of the annual ACPA Convention. So what do these two fun-loving higher education and student affairs administrators choose to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1467,1196,20,842],"tags":[9452,70,1321,9451,5034],"class_list":["post-20290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-literary-criticism","category-usa","category-videos","tag-heather-lou","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-marc-johnston","tag-multiracial-network-blog","tag-nancy-buirski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}