Creighton University is holding a symposium this Thursday and Friday called 50 Years of Loving: Seeking Justice through Love and Relationships.
Dr. Palma Strand, Professor of Law at Creighton, says the symposium marks the 50th anniversary of the US Supreme Court decision in Loving vs. Virginia which came out in 1967 and held that people in this country have a constitutional right to marry people who are of a different race.
Strand says a lot has happened since 1967.
She says there are increasing numbers of interracial marriages as well as more and more people who identify as multi-racial.
"We thought it was a good opportunity to look at an aspect of civil rights that is more personal and more about relationships than a lot of the kind of civil rights issues we think about.”
Strand says the symposium begins Thursday night at 5:30 with a talk by Mat Johnson, author of the novel Loving Day.
For more information and to register, the website is law.creighton.edu.