Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Loving v. Virginia.

That ruling overturned laws in the U.S. that had barred interracial marriage.

And over the course of the last half-century, there have been dramatic increases in the number of people marrying someone of a different race or ethnicity.

The Pew Research Center says that designation applied to one in six Americans in 2015.

We talked about the numbers with Gretchen Livingston, a senior researcher at Pew. And we looked at how society’s views have changed on interracial marriage with Zhenchao Qian, professor of Sociology at Brown University.