Nanci Griffith has honored an inter-racial couple who are featured
in the title song of her latest album on The Loving Kind.

The title track, emblematic of the album's story songs, refers to Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 landmark civil rights case that once and for all ended the ban on interracial marriages in the U.S. Richard and Mildred Loving were a married white man and black woman who were forced to leave their native state of Virginia under threat of arrest because of the state's Jim Crow law prohibiting marriages between different races.

"I read Mildred Loving's obituary in The New York Times last year and it just floored me," recalls Griffith. Tragically, Richard died in a tragic car accident just months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the couple's favor. "She never remarried and in her last interview, just before she passed away, she expressed hope that their case would eventually be the open door to the legalization of same sex marriage."

An earlier album of hers (Hearts In Mind)
had another song about an inter-racial couple....Love Conquers All