“Susan Green and Robin Phillips brilliantly use their own family story to connect the dots between the long-ago battles to allow interracial marriages and today’s fight for same-sex marriage equality. As a journalist, and the daughter of an interracial couple, I know well how important it is to expose the public to the human story of how lives have been upended by discrimination.This is a compelling story of laughter and life, fear and frustration, joy and triumph, a very personal look inside the lives of a family that faced discrimination not once, but twice.”
~ Soledad O’Brien
“Couples get married every day in the United States, but some have to work harder than others for the right to do so. Rarer still is when two such couples exist in the same family, a generation apart. This fascinating memoir tells the story of interracial and same-sex couples who refused to take no for an answer.”
~ Sharon and Mary Bishop-Baldwin, authors of Becoming Brave: Winning Marriage Equality in Oklahoma and Finding Our Voice
“Thanks to people like the Lovings and the Greens, we as Americans are pushed again to see that it’s not’ interracial’ nor ‘gay’, it’s marriage and it’s worth fighting for.”
~ Lillian Dunlap, Executive Director Your Real Stories, Diversity Consultant, Communication Research Enterprises, LLC
“Ancient Greek philosophers identified ‘love’ in four ways: Familial, Friendly, Romantic and Divine. The Marriage Battle: A Family Tradition, expands on these to include Powerful and Unconditional as its interconnected stories highlight the hearts of four individuals and their infinite love despite the race, gender and sexuality storms each have encountered – and continue to – throughout their lives.”
~ Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig, Founder/Editor-in-Chief, shades Magazine – Celebrating All Women of Color
“Race, gender, sexism. These are just some of the issues played out, tackled and beaten down in this book about love and family and the right to marry. It’s a raw look behind the curtains of several members of one family fighting to marry the person they love.”
~ Retha Hill, Former VP at BET Executive Director at the Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab
