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Category Archives: Wednesday Round-Up
Wednesday Round-Up: Black History Month Edition
Hi Meltingpot Readers, Clearly I’m not the only one trying to inject some innovation into the Black History Month ‘celebrations.’ So, I figured I’d link to some creative [..]
Wednesday Round-Up: Black History Beyond Borders Edition
Hi Meltingpot Readers, Monday’s post was meant to get all of my non-Black readers into celebrating Black history month. Now, I want to stretch your minds even more [..]
Wednesday Round-Up: Fierce Female Bloggers, Django One More Time, and GQ’s Take on Asian Beauty
Hi Meltingpot Readers, It’s Wednesday, so let’s get it to it, your weekly rationing of tasty, fresh links. I’ve scoured the web, so you don’t have to. Enjoy! [..]
Wednesday Round-Up: Finding Zion, Fried Chicken and Black Women in Britain.
Hi Meltingpot Readers, It’s Wednesday, I’ve searched the web, so you don’t have to. Let’s get to those tasty, new links. 1. Check out this quickie but quirky [..]
Wednesday Round Up: “Girls” Gone Black, Django Dolls & Africa goes Gangnam
Hi Meltingpot Readers, It’s Wednesday, which means today is the day I send you all over the world-wide web to see what other folks are talking about. As [..]
Wednesday Round-Up: Acts of Kindness, Dominican Paradise, Racial Profiling
Hi Meltingpot Readers, Today is Wednesday so that means I’m sending your hither and yon through cyberspace to read some of the best or worst of what mankind [..]
Wednesday Round-Up: Being Black in Maine, Jewish for the Holidays, and Black in America
Hi Meltingpot Readers, It’s Wednesday, so that means it’s time for some fresh, hot links to share. So, let’s get to it. The first place I must send [..]
Race in the Race: A Wednesday Round-Up Election Special
Hello Meltingpot Readers, I think it’s safe to say here, that I am so happy that Barack Obama won the 2012 presidential election. I was sitting on pins [..]
