Today is #LovingDay, the anniversary of Loving v. Virginia. Without that Supreme Court decision, which was only 53 (!!) years ago, our marriage would've been illegal in Louisiana (we got married in the great city of New Orleans) Think about that: 53 years ago it was ILLEGAL for a white person to marry a black person in 16 states in the United States. Let the sink in. Even the framing of "Anti-miscegenation" is so messed up--it normalizes hate--and to think people at our wedding actually were alive when that ceremony would've been banned. This is not ancient history. This is past and present. This is systemic. And many of these states (yes, nearly all of them in the South) had their laws repealed after losing the Civil War, but reinstated them as soon as they could. Thank you, Mildred & Richard, for tearing down racist relics so that generations of Americans could legally enjoy the foundational act of FAMILY.