You can get the latest updates about the podcast by following The Loving Project on Facebook, Google+ or Twitter or by visiting our website, LovingProject.com.

Ermias and Jen

Dec 4th, 2017 28m 15s

Jen is white and grew up in Philadelphia, while Ermias is black and Eritrean. They met in Eritrea in 1995 when Jen was there as a Peace Corps volunteer. They had a long distance relationship for a while and just when Ermias was on the verge of

Jean and Mas

Nov 20th, 2017 28m 1s

Jean and Mas have been together since 1972 and married since 1992. Jean is white and was raised in Rochester, New York. Mas is Japanese-American and he was born in an internment camp during World War II and grew up in Seabrook, New Jersey. Bot

Mee and Ken

Nov 6th, 2017 28m 14s

Ken is Irish and Mee is Korean American. They met when Ken flew from Ireland to the United States for a friend's wedding, and the two quickly hit it off and began a trans-Atlantic relationship. Mee was living in New York at the time, and after

Joshu and Marleny

Oct 23rd, 2017 30m 45s

Joshu and Marleny met online in 2011. After a potentially disastrous first date, they hit it off and eventually got married in 2014. They now live in Philadelphia's Fishtown neighborhood. Joshu is white and Marleny is black and was born in the

David and Belinda

Oct 9th, 2017 34m 21s

David and Belinda were part of each other's worlds before they even met. David would ride his bike to and from work in Pleasantville, NJ and Belinda would occasionally wave to him, a passing stranger, as she drove by. It so happened that they w

Kevin and Lisa

Sep 23rd, 2017 23m 58s

Kevin and Lisa have been married since 2009. They live in New Jersey, where they're raising two young daughters. Lisa is white, and grew up in Northeast Pennsylvania. Kevin is Korean and was raised in Western Pennsylvania by his adopted parents

Len and Fernando

Sep 11th, 2017 27m 55s

Len and Fernando met and started dating in 1981 but they didn't get married until 2014, over 3 decades later. They literally fought for the right to marry; they were among several LGBT couples who were plaintiffs in the lawsuit that resulted in

Shawn and Jen

Aug 28th, 2017 23m 59s

Jen and Shawn met in 2004 under sad circumstances when they lost a mutual friend. Eleven years later, they got married and now live in Lansdowne, PA with their 2-year-old son. Shawn is African American, and grew up in South Philadelphia while J

Kate and Courtney

Aug 14th, 2017 31m 16s

Kate and Courtney met while they were both students at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. Courtney is black, and grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. Kate is white, and grew up in Buffalo, New York. They've lived in Baltimore and Washington DC, and n

Steve and Christine

Jul 31st, 2017 27m 17s

Christine and Steve met at a party in Phialdelphia in the 1960s, and they've been together ever since. Christine is black, and grew up in Glassboro, New Jersey. Steve is white and was raised in Philadelphia. In this episode of the Loving Proje

Lesley and Cord

Jul 17th, 2017 26m 3s

Lesley and Cord met while Lesley was working at Duke University and Cord was a graduate student at the school. In their very first conversation, Lesley impressed Cord with her critique of his favorite medieval author, St. Augustine, even thoug

Eric and David

Jul 3rd, 2017 34m 33s

Eric and David married nearly 5 decades after the Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage, but just a year after another Court ruling that made same-sex marriages like theirs legal across the United States. David is white, an

Mike and Kim

Jun 19th, 2017 29m 43s

Mike and Kim met while working in a research lab at the University of Pennsylvania. At the time, Mike was a senior, while Kim had recently finished her PhD and was working as a postdoctoral researcher while raising her 10-year-old son. Mike is

Loving Day Special

Jun 12th, 2017 17m 13s

On June 12th, 1967, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Loving v. Virginia. That decision rendered all state laws banning interracial marriage unconstitutional and made it legal for individuals of different races to marry all across the USA

Florence and Ed

Jun 5th, 2017 46m 58s

Florence and Ed met in the 1960's in Nashville while they were in college - Ed at Vanderbilt and Florence at Fisk University. They began dating after getting to know each other as co-facilitators for the Upward Bound program and got married in

Michelle and Melissa

May 22nd, 2017 44m 6s

Michelle and Melissa met in college and were together for 12 years before getting married in 2017. Although they are both Philadelphia natives, they hail from very different parts of the city. Melissa, who is white, grew up in Bridesburg, a nei

Lori and Manuel

May 8th, 2017 25m 16s

Lori and Manuel have been married since 1999. Manuel is white and grew up in Spain. Lori is black and grew up in Wisconsin. They met at university in Spain, where Lori was studying abroad; eventually Manuel joined her in the United States where

Aarati and Jonathan

Apr 24th, 2017 26m 34s

The Loving Project commemorates the 50th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia by featuring modern stories of interracial marriage. Aarati and Jonathan got married in 2006. Jonathan is White and Jewish and Aarati is Indian-American. They met in Chi

Anastasia and Symeon

Apr 10th, 2017 24m 13s

Anastasia and Symeon met online while they were working at that same university. They married in 2011 and live in Philadelphia with their two young sons. Symeon grew up in rural New York state, while Anastasia grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In

Craig and Donna

Mar 27th, 2017 26m 16s

Donna and Craig have been married since 1988. Craig is White and grew up in Queens, New York. Donna is Black and was born in the United States, but lived in Belgium for about 10 years before returning to New York, where she and Craig first met.

Beth and Helaina

Mar 13th, 2017 26m 55s

Beth and Helaina are an interracial couple living in Philadelphia’s Mount Airy neighborhood. They got married in a wedding ceremony in Philadelphia in 2007, before gay marriage became legal nationwide. They later had a legal ceremony in Califor

Shaina and Brahim

Feb 27th, 2017 26m 50s

Shaina is a white Jewish woman from Texas. Brahim is a black, Muslim, Berber Arab from Morocco. They met while Shaina was volunteering for an organization Brahim started in a small village in Morocco, and after Shaina returned to the United Sta

Courtney and Dave

Feb 12th, 2017 25m 59s

Dave and Courtney have been married since 2010, and they're raising an 18 month old boy in West Philadelphia. Courtney is African American, while Dave is white, and they're both navigating what it means to raise a biracial child in the era of B

Arun and Carrie

Jan 30th, 2017 32m 45s

Arun and Carrie got married in 2001; Arun is Indian and Carrie is white. Both grew up in Northeast Ohio, and they now live in Philadelphia with their two children. Arun grew up in a close-knit Indian community where arranged marriages were the