{"id":8880,"date":"2020-06-12T23:10:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T23:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=8880"},"modified":"2022-06-25T21:05:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:05:54","slug":"mildred-loving-badass-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/12\/mildred-loving-badass-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"Mildred Loving, Badass Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>June 12, 2020<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The\u00a0Multiracial Activist<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>From the Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the founder of The Multiracial Activist, one of my major, early campaigns was a fight I picked with an anti-miscegenationist private college (Bob Jones University) in 1998. I won in 2000. They suck. Die mad about it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>On this Loving Day, I want to shout out one of my personal role models, who did this work long before I knew it was something worth pursuing. I never got to know her and really wish I had interviewed her for the magazine before her death. She was brave, smart, a fighter, and just wanted to live in peace with her husband. She wasn&#8217;t asking for much, really, but she had to take on the Commonwealth of Virginia and the abhorrent Racial Integrity Act to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Her name was Mildred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/activist\/mildred-loving\">and she was fucking bad-ass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>James Landrith<\/p>\n<p>Founder and Publisher<br \/>\nThe Multiracial Activist<br \/>\nand The Abolitionist Examiner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 12, 2020 The\u00a0Multiracial Activist From the Editor: As the founder of The Multiracial Activist, one of my major, early campaigns was a fight I picked with an anti-miscegenationist private college (Bob Jones University)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-8880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","tag-interracial-relationships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-2je","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Editors-Corner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8880"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8884,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880\/revisions\/8884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}