Nicole Richie and Joel Madden

Nicole Richie and Joel Madden

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Nicole Richie and Adam Goldstein

Nicole Richie and Adam Goldstein (DJ AM)

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Alison Stewart and Bill Wolff

Alison Stewart (former MTV News reporter and MSNBC anchor) and Bill Wolff (VP, MSNBC)

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The bride and bridegroom, both 40, work in Secaucus for MSNBC, the cable news channel; she is a daytime news anchor and the host of “The Most,” and he is the vice president for prime-time programming.

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Mildred and Richard Loving

The Couple Who Shattered the Race Barrier

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(AP) Reporters no longer beat a path to the modest white house just over the Caroline County border — and that’s fine with its owner, a soft-spoken 67-year-old who never wanted the fame her marriage brought her.

Born Mildred Jeter, she’s known mostly by the name she took when she — a black woman living in segregated Virginia — dared break the rules by marrying a white man named Richard Loving.

The union landed the Lovings in jail, and then before the Supreme Court, and finally in the history books; 40 years ago Tuesday, the court ruled in favor of the couple, overturning laws prohibiting interracial unions and changing the face of America.

Mildred Loving is a matriarch to thousands of mixed couples now sprinkled in every city. But she hardly considers herself a hero — just a girl who once fell in love with a boy.

“It wasn’t my doing,” Loving told The Associated Press, in a rare interview. “It was God’s work

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Justin Chambers and Keisha

Justin Chambers (Grey’s Anatomy’s Dr. Alex Karev) and his wife Keisha

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