In The Media
The story of the Lovings has been turned into two films, Mr. & Mrs. Loving (1996), starring Lela Rochon, Timothy Hutton and Ruby Dee. The screenplay was written and directed by Richard Friedenberg. Mildred Loving disputed the accuracy of the film. The second film, The Loving Story, premiered on HBO on February 14, 2012.
In 2007, singer-songwriter Drew Brody released a song called The Ballad of Mildred Loving (Loving in Virginia), a folk-music interpretation of the Lovings and their legal odyssey. In 2009 Nanci Griffith released The Loving Kind written after reading a New York Times obituary about Mildred Loving. Griffith received an American Civil Liberties Union' Bill of Rights Award for this song.
Read more about this topic: Loving V. Virginia
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“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity—much less dissent.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)