LIFE: R.I.P. Mildred Loving

Mildred Loving, an often overlooked and accidental civil rights pioneer who was banned from Virginia after marrying a white man (she was black), passed away on May 2 at age 68. You may have read her backstory in a history class or two in school (depending on where you're from): she married Richard Loving and was arrested a few days later for violating Virginia's Racial Integrity Act. They avoided jail time by promising never to come back to the state. She in turn took her case to the American Civil Liberties Union who took it to the Supreme Court whose justices overturned Virginia's racist law. Read more about her here.