Category: Black in the World
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Celebrating Juneteenth Is As American as Strawberry Soda
Updated June 2023 In the United States, June 19, is now officially (Thanks, President Biden!) Juneteenth Day, aka Black America’s Independence Day. Have you stocked up on strawberry soda? Are you ready to fire up the grill? Are you confused? If you don’t know how to celebrate Juneteenth Day, or even if you should, do…
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MAMP History: Josephine Baker and the Original Rainbow Coalition
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Today I’m introducing a new feature here on the Meltingpot called My American Meltingpot History, where I’ll be highlighting some of the most Meltingpot moments in our nation’s past. Because mainstream history books and the lessons many of us were taught in school emphasized a segregated version of American history, many people…
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Friday Favorites: Black Girl Magic on the Cover of the New Yorker
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Don’t you just feel great when the right people win? That’s how I felt this morning when I saw that a recent graduate of a local Philadelphia art school (college not high school) created the cover for this week’s New Yorker issue, which happens to be the coveted summer, fiction double-issue. Loveis…
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Can A Black Man Get an Amen At a Royal Wedding?
Hello Meltingpot Readers, I’m sure it will come as no surprise that I watched Meghan and Harry’s wedding from start to finish on Saturday. Please note, I did not get up at four in the morning to watch it live because I don’t stan for the royals like that, even if this was the first…
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Meghan Markle & Prince Harry Bring the Meltingpot to the Royal Family
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Maybe the chaos and despair happening all over the world has got your mind anywhere but on the goings on of the British royal family. Well, I’m here to remind you that this Saturday, on May 19th, Prince Harry is marrying the biracial, American actress, Meghan Markle making the royal family a…
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Why St. Augustine, Florida is the Perfect Kinky Gazpacho Family Getaway
Hello Dear Readers, For the first time ever, I’m sending two of my three children away for summer camp. Yes, son #1 and son #2 are going to turn 17 and 14 this summer, but for reasons both cultural and financial, we’ve never sent them away for camp. But this year, son #1 is going…
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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…
