Author: Lori Tharps
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April is National Celebrate Diversity Month! Try These 5 Ways to Celebrate
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Did you know April was National Celebrate Diversity Month? If you recall, I launched my Celebrate Diversity hashtag challenge in 2019, calling for all of us to boldly celebrate diversity all year long to counterbalance the disturbing acts of racial and ethnic hate crimes and violence that kept dominating the headlines. And…
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Meltingpot News Round-Up: Colorism, White Fragility & Chinese Food
Hello Meltingpot Readers, This week has been chock full of meltingpot news and stories. It’s hard to keep up. But don’t worry about it, I got you covered. Here’s what you should know for the week that was, April 8, 2019. Colorism in the News Colorism Makes Headlines. This isn’t hyperbole, The Guardian Newspaper’s US…
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MAMP Podcast Ep. #10: Interracial Friendships in Pop Culture and Real Life
It’s Season 2 of the My American Meltingpot podcast! Welcome Back! On episode 10 of the podcast, we’re talking about interracial friendships in real life and in pop culture. Not Everybody Has a Black or Brown Friend Even though I grew up in mostly white spaces and lived in one of the most segregated cities…
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The Secret to A Long-Lasting Marriage? Finding Your Do-or-Die Tribe
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Today el esposo and I are celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary! Yep, twenty years. We got married in 1999 and three kids, four houses, one dog and a cat later, we’re still together. But it hasn’t been easy. Like most things that require a lifelong commitment, staying married requires hard emotional work,…
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Five People to Follow On Instagram for Multicultural Magic
Hello Meltingpot Readers, True confession, I was totally late to the Instagram party. I’m still trying to figure it all out, BUT…I have discovered what Instagram is really good for. Inspiration. Sometimes I find myself just scrolling through my feed falling in love with all of the multicultural magic. I follow people who post about…
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Meltingpot News Round-Up: Jussie Smollett, Books about Blackness and Us.
Hello Meltingpot Readers, It’s Friday. Yay! We made it through another week of life on this crazy planet we call home. Because this is my American Meltingpot, I thought I’d introduce a new feature here, the Meltingpot Round-Up. Think of it of as a collection of meltingpot news, tidbits and pop culture moments from the…
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4 Great Parenting Blogs Celebrating Multicultural Motherhood
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Even though it seems like we are now in the age of Instagram, I still enjoy and appreciate the information and community I find on blogs. Between you and me, I don’t want to read an entire essay on Instagram. I still think of blogs as reliable and relatable sources of information.…
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Dora the Explorer Is Alive and Coming to a Theater Near You
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Around these parts we’re always lamenting the lack of quality pop culture products with diverse characters, particularly films for younger audiences. So, imagine my complete and total surprise when I found out (thanks teenage sons) that Nickelodeon is making a live-action, Dora the Explorer movie. Just in case you slept through the…
