{"id":47573,"date":"2016-06-11T21:38:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T21:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47573"},"modified":"2016-06-11T21:39:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T21:39:05","slug":"one-mans-quest-for-loving-day-a-holiday-for-multiracial-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47573","title":{"rendered":"One man’s quest for Loving Day, a holiday for multiracial Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

One man’s quest for Loving Day, a holiday for multiracial Americans<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times<\/a>
\n2016-06-10<\/p>\n

Jaweed Kaleem<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nKen Tanabe founded Loving Day<\/a> in 2004, and leads celebrations and workshops across the U.S. on being multiracial. (Pearl Shavzin-Dremeaux)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Forty-nine years ago on June 12, the Supreme Court struck down laws in 16 states that banned mixed-race marriages. The decision in Loving vs. Virginia<\/em><\/a> overturned the conviction of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple from Caroline County, Va.<\/a>, who had been arrested, jailed and banned from their home state for violating its Racial Integrity Act<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It also ushered in a new era in the American family.<\/p>\n

Today, the Pew Research Center counts 22 million multiracial Americans<\/a>, about 6.9% of the U.S. population. Nearly 10% of married couple households — more than 5 million — are interracial or inter-ethnic, according to the U.S. census.<\/p>\n

For 12 years, Ken Tanabe, a Japanese-Belgian freelance graphic designer living in New York, has been working to educate Americans about what he sees as one of the most significant civil rights cases through Loving Day<\/a>, the unofficial holiday that cities across the country are slowly adapting to celebrate the lives of the fast-growing multiracial population.<\/p>\n

Now Tanabe, whose organization<\/a> has tracked and sponsored many of the dozens of dance and music festivals, film screenings, picnics and forums taking place across the country in June to commemorate Loving vs. Virginia<\/em>, has launched a campaign to get the holiday recognized by the federal government…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One man’s quest for Loving Day, a holiday for multiracial Americans The Los Angeles Times 2016-06-10 Jaweed Kaleem Ken Tanabe founded Loving Day in 2004, and leads celebrations and workshops across the U.S. on being multiracial. (Pearl Shavzin-Dremeaux) Forty-nine years ago on June 12, the Supreme Court struck down laws in 16 states that banned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,26,20],"tags":[24060,6749,3909,24061,13272],"class_list":["post-47573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-jaweed-kaleem","tag-ken-tanabe","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-loving-vs-virginia","tag-the-los-angeles-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47573","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=47573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47575,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47573\/revisions\/47575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}