{"id":49652,"date":"2016-10-28T14:22:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T14:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49652"},"modified":"2016-10-28T14:22:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T14:22:43","slug":"the-african-american-museum-chooses-loving-for-its-first-film-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49652","title":{"rendered":"The African American Museum chooses \u2018Loving\u2019 for its first film screening"},"content":{"rendered":"

The African American Museum chooses \u2018Loving\u2019 for its first film screening<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2016-10-25<\/p>\n

Helena Andrews-Dyer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nJoel Edgerton<\/a> and Ruth Negga<\/a>, stars of\u00a0\u201cLoving<\/a>,\u201d attend the premiere of the film on Thursday\u00a0in Beverly Hills<\/a>. (Chris Pizzello\/Invision\u00a0via Associated Press)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Just one month after opening its doors, the National Museum of African American History and Culture<\/a> is establishing itself as a permanent stop\u00a0on the Washington<\/a> social circuit. There have been cocktail parties, galas, private dinners and now one of D.C.\u2019s favorite after-work pastimes \u2014 the movie screening.<\/p>\n

But not just any movie screening. On Monday, the museum hosted a sneak peek of \u201cLoving<\/a>\u201d in the 350-seat Oprah Winfrey Theater\u2013one of\u00a0many for the new institution. The choice wasn\u2019t coincidental, said Rhea L. Combs<\/a>, the museum\u2019s photography\u00a0and film curator and head of its Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts.<\/p>\n

\u201cShowing this film at the museum is important\u00a0because the story is symbolic of the mission of the museum,\u201d Combs said. \u201cIt demonstrates the link between people of all backgrounds and culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLoving\u201d tells the true story of Mildred and Richard Loving, an interracial couple from Virginia<\/a>\u00a0who fought for nearly a decade to have their marriage recognized as legal. Their historic case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which eventually struck down laws against interracial marriage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Almost 50 years later the movie\u2019s\u00a0stars, Ruth Negga<\/a> and Joel Edgerton<\/a>, walked the red carpet at the museum that houses artifacts from the couple they play on screen. Everyone involved bowed to the movie\u2019s role as An Important Film…<\/p>\n

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The African American Museum chooses \u2018Loving\u2019 for its first film screening The Washington Post 2016-10-25 Helena Andrews-Dyer Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga, stars of\u00a0\u201cLoving,\u201d attend the premiere of the film on Thursday\u00a0in Beverly Hills. (Chris Pizzello\/Invision\u00a0via Associated Press) Just one month after opening its doors, the National Museum of African American History and Culture is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,459,8,20,693],"tags":[25319,20081,70,25318,2754,25027,25320,1335,827,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-49652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-helena-andrews-dyer","tag-joel-edgerton","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-mildred-and-richard-loving","tag-mildred-loving","tag-national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture","tag-rhea-l-combs","tag-richard-loving","tag-ruth-negga","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49652","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=49652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49654,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49652\/revisions\/49654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}