Loving Premiere!

We were thrilled to be inside the much-anticipated National Museum of African American History Monday night for the DC premiere of Loving. 

The film focuses on the couple’s struggles in a society that didn’t yet accept integration in the home and their real-life courage and commitment as an interracial couple. Richard and Mildred, who got married, spent nine years fighting for the right to live as a family, relocating from a small town in Virginia to the inner city of Washington, DC. We snapped producers Oge Egbuonu and Ged Doherty. 

The civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation of the right to marry, a love story that has become an inspiration and was bound to hit the big screen. Here, Comcast's Antonio Williams, The Beat's Tiffany Cross, NAACP's Nicholas Wiggins. 

A special screening was held for guests in The Oprah Winfrey Theatre following a chic cocktail hour in its lobby. Here, National Association of Counties' Jacob Terrell and Anthony Jamison with CET Academic Programs' Kim Sine. 

The film will be in select theaters Nov. 4 and is expanding nationwide in the weeks following. Here, NBC producer Mosheh Gains, his mother, Michele Bland, White House correspondent Kristen Welker, and NBC Washington bureau chief Ken Strickland. 

The groundbreaking film celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (portrayed in the film by Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton), who fell in love and were married in 1958.