Author: Lori Tharps
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#Friday Favorites: Rain Pryor’s “Fried Chicken and Latkes” Coming to TV
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Today is Friday so that means I get to share something that makes me smile and today that something is Fried Chicken and Latkes. Not literally (although fried chicken and potato pancakes sounds like a winning combination to me), I’m talking about Rain Pryor’s fabulous, award-winning, one-woman show about growing about Black…
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Greatest Hits from MAMP: Black hair, Black Amish and Black People Adopting White Children
Hello Meltingpot Readers, In honor of my blog-a-versary, which was yesterday, I decided to take a trip down memory lane to see what kind of blog posts attracted the most attention. Since I’ve always written about a wide range of subjects under the umbrella of race and culture and because I never utilized any SEO…
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It’s My Blog-a-versary! Twelve Years of My American Meltingpot
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Tomorrow is my Blogaversary. On April 10, 2006, I wrote my very first blog post. I didn’t know exactly what I was doing, but I was happy to have an outlet for all of my thoughts and ideas that revolved around race, culture, family and Black hair. Looking back, I realize how…
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#FridayFavorites: A Black “Rebel Queen” Sits in Denmark
Hello Meltingpot Readers, So, today’s #FridayFavorite isn’t coming from America, but rather, from Denmark. Ms. Meltingpot is giving Denmark, the country that gave the world the Lego brick, two big, brown thumbs up for their recent installation of a public statue of a Black woman, aka, Mary Thomas, aka the Rebel Queen. The New York…
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Love Not Hate: Proud by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Yesterday, April 3, Muslim communities across the UK had to deal with a disturbing and frightening threat, a threat that also made its way to the United States’ Muslim community. I refuse to use my blog to write specifically about the event, because I feel it simply adds credibility to a hate-filled…
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Transracial Adoption on Trial
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Update: While this story doesn’t shed any new light on the facts of this horrific story, Dr. Stacy Patton explains very clearly in the Washington Post how racism could be partly to blame for the death of the Hart children. It’s not necessarily the racism of the white mothers, but the racism…
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White Moms, Black Children and a Mysterious Death
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Has anyone else been following this bizarre story about the two white adoptive moms who were found dead at the bottom of a cliff with three of their adopted Black children in their car? There are rumors circulating that this was a suicide/murder following an investigation of child abuse, but nothing has…
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This Revolution Will Be in Color
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Last week I wrote about the media’s whitewashing of victimhood in the current coverage of gun violence in America. Today, I am thrilled to write about the diversity of voices that were heard and highlighted in the weekend’s national March For Our Lives. From Emma Gonzalez, who brought the world to tears…
