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At a community park on Houston’s west side, two bare-chested men are mean-­mugging each other hard, their faces just inches apart, as a crowd howls “Let’s eaaaaaat!” around them. Any passerby on this overcast March afternoon could be forgiven for thinking a bareknuckle fight was about to go down. But this is a weighted-calisthenics battle,…

As we turn the page on our first 250 years as a country, it is remarkable how far we have come in terms of intermarriage. Marriage between Black people and white people was banned in many colonies (later states) as well as between other races. It was only 59 years ago, in the 1967 Loving…