Category: Black in the World
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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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#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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#FridayFavorites: American Street by Ibi Zoboi
The bad news is, I’m sick. The good news is, being sick gave me the perfect excuse to sit still all day and devour the critically acclaimed YA novel, American Street by Ibi Zoboi. True story, I fell in love with American Street as soon as I saw the cover back in early 2017 when…
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Five Easy Ways to End Black History Month with a Pro-Black Bang!
Today is the last day of Black History Month. Just in case you wanted to do something special to celebrate, but you didn’t actually plan anything, here are five Meltingpot approved, easy-breezy, pro-Black ways to finish off the greatest (and Blackest) month of the year. 1.LISTEN Listen to The Diary of a Mad Black Cousin…
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#FridayFavorites: Chris Rock’s Tamborine
Hi Meltingpot Readers, It’s Friday! That means I share something that’s making me happy that hopefully might make you happy too. Lord knows we need some happy right now given what’s happening in this country right now. Last night, el esposo and I watched Chris Rock’s Netflix special, Tamborine, even though it was a school…
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Five Great Books about Frederick Douglass in Honor of his 200th Birthday
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Yes, I know today is Valentine’s Day, but did you know today is also the day Frederick Douglass would be celebrating his 200th birthday? Considering this man is one of my personal heroes, I figured I’d dedicate today’s post to him, instead of waxing on about love and flowers and chocolate and…
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The Loving Generation Explores Blackness, Whiteness and the Spaces Between
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Back in 2015, I wrote about a fascinating documentary called, Little White Lie. It was about one woman’s search for her true racial identity, after years believing she was White. That filmmaker was Lacey Schwartz and now she has directed a new digital documentary series that also explores race, biracial identity and…
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#FridayFavorites: Books and Black Hair Products
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Now that I’m back to blogging after an, ahem, brief time away, I’ve decided to add some new features to the blog. One of these new features is a weekly post that will highlight whatever person, place or thing I’m currently crushing on. It could be a book, or a restaurant or…
