Category: Get Lit(erary)!
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Reading in Color is Anti-Racist Work:How Colorful is Your Bookshelf?
Hello Meltingpot Community, I have a simple question for you? How colorful is your bookshelf? If you’re a regular reader of this blog, then you know how much I love to read and you know how much I love to read diverse books. Heck, 2020 is the year I launched my diverse reading challenge. Personally,…
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Extra! Extra! Use the Capital B When Referring to Black People!
Hello Meltingpot Community, I feel like celebrating! More than five years ago, I wrote a post here on the blog, that then led to an opinion piece in The New York Times, advocating for journalists and publishers to capitalize the B in Black when referring to Black people. On Friday – yes Juneteenth Day –…
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MAMP Podcast #38: Author Erin Entrada Kelly on Diversity and Dreaming of Space
On episode 38 of the My American Meltingpot podcast, I am excited to have award-winning author, Erin Entrada Kelly join me to talk about her brand new book, We Dream of Space, her impressive career writing middle grade novels, and why she’s so committed to including (truly) diverse characters in all of her work. Since…
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MAMP Podcast Ep#37: Girl, Woman, Other Reviewed
Hello Meltingpot Community, Episode 37 of the podcast is just a Meltingpot Minute. It’s a short one, but it’s long enough for me to share my review of the 2019 Booker Prize winning novel, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo. The book is a delightful invitation into the lives of a diverse group of Black…
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Ida B. Wells (Finally) Wins a Pulitzer Prize!
Hello Meltingpot Community, On Monday the Pulitzer Prizes – the Academy Awards of journalism – were announced and one particular award warmed my defiant Black journalist’s heart. Eighty-nine years after her death, Ida B. Wells received a special citation from the Pulitzer committee for her pioneering work in investigative reporting. More specifically, she was given…
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How to Save a Life… with a Book
Hello Meltingpot Community, It feels like day number 70 million thousand of our new lockdown lifestyle. Here in Philadelphia, where I live, we’re still allowed to go outside and take walks and bike rides, so I should hardly complain because many people have it much worse. But I want to give everyone permission in this…
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Black Man in Paris: An Interview with Writer Miles Marshall Lewis
Hello Meltingpot Community. I’m so excited to share my interview with Miles Marshall Lewis. A fellow writer/journalist/author who is now taking his storytelling skills to the screen, Miles, like me, is committed to chronicling the Black experience in Europe. I invited Miles to the Meltingpot so he could tell you a little bit about himself,…
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Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy: Little Women Goes Multicultural
Hello Meltingpot Community, I remember when I first read Little Women by Louisa May Alcott back when I was a teen. (I also remember watching a made-for-TV version as well). I really identified with the character of Jo, because like her, I desperately yearned to be a writer and I wasn’t exactly the most girly…
