My American Meltingpot

Category: Books in Color

  • Book Review: The Wedding Gift

    Book Review: The Wedding Gift

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    Lori Tharps
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    Hi Meltingpot Readers, Have you heard the buzz about The Wedding Gift? It’s seriously one of those great stories of an author self-publishing her work, thousands of people reading it and then a major New York City publisher swoops it up and makes the author a star. That’s kind of what happened to Marlen Suyapa…

  • Kinky Gazpacho The Movie! An Update

    Kinky Gazpacho The Movie! An Update

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    Lori Tharps
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    Hi Meltingpot Readers, So, I got another update about the progress of Kinky Gazpacho the movie. If you recall from the last time I wrote about it, a Spanish actor had reached out to me to tell me he wanted to play the role of el esposo. Apparently his enthusiasm was a wee bit premature,…

  • One Drop: A Colorful New Book About Blackness

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    Hello Meltingpot Readers, Pardon my absence last week. I was in Washington, DC at a conference for work. Ms. Meltingpot wears many hats, and journalism professor is one of them and must be attended to in addition to my author, mommy, lover of the multi-culti universe roles. Anywho, I can’t believe it’s taken me this…

  • My First Book ReBorn

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    Lori Tharps
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    Hi Meltingpot Readers, In case you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to — besides my usual combination of teaching, parenting and blogging —  and you want to know how I’ll be spending the next two months of my life, I can now officially report that I’ll be writing the updated version of my first…

  • “The Black Russian”…No, Really I said, Black Russian

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    Hi Meltingpot Readers, El esposo and I had to dash into Brooklyn today to get our taxes done. Yes, we still drive 90 miles to New York City to get our taxes done because we love, love, love our accountant. We usually end up making a nice day of it and show the kids all…

  • My Life on the Big Screen?… Stay Tuned

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    Lori Tharps
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    Hi Meltingpot Readers, So, yesterday morning when I checked my inbox, I had an email from this wonderful Spanish actor who said he really wanted to play the part of el esposo in the movie version of Kinky Gazpacho! Dear readers, do you remember some time ago, a couple of years at least, I mentioned…

  • Black Hair in the Ivy League

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    Lori Tharps
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    Hi Meltingpot Readers, Guess where I spent my morning? At the University of Pennsylvania. The department of Africana Studies hosted a day-long symposium on the politics of Black hair. The panel I attended was moderated by Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show. Perry dedicated an entire show to the topic of Black women’s hair…

  • ‘Beyond the Possible’ Book Review: Let the Church Say Amen!

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    Lori Tharps
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    Hello Meltingpot Readers, How many of you have ever heard of the Glide Memorial Methodist Church ? Apparently it’s an incredibly famous progressive Methodist church in the ‘crime ridden’ Tenderloin district of San Francisco and on any given Sunday their sanctuary is filled with the neighborhood’s most down-trodden alongside social activist celebrities like Bono and Danny…

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