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The rights of the heart, interpreted with beauty by Loving

Negga and Edgerton, far right, play the Lovings as a normal family living under extraordinary circumstances

JUST LAST SPRING, AN OLD NAVY Twitter ad featuring an interracial family prompted a vicious outcry from social-media trolls who were furious at the store for promoting “race mixing.” A backlash against the backlash followed, with hundreds of Twitter users posting pictures of their interracial families, a ray of hope that Americans can be motivated by

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