Category: The Podcast
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MAMP Podcast Ep#18: Talking to Our Kids About Race
On episode 18 of My American Meltingpot, we’re talking about how and when to talk to our children about race. Let’s be clear, we’re not going to give you a color-by-numbers script on how to talk to your children about race because, first of all, we don’t know your children. We don’t know what race…
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MAMP Ep.#17: Live from the Respect Women’s Podcast Festival
Welcome back for Season 3 of the My American Meltingpot podcast! Our logo is a little more colorful and so are we. Episode 17 is a little bit different and a whole lot of fun. I recorded this episode in front of a live audience at the Respect Women’s Podcast Festival in Philadelphia on August…
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MAMP Podcast Ep:15: Fried Chicken Across Cultures
On episode 15 of the My American Meltingpot podcast, we’re getting out of the studio and hitting the streets of Philadelphia to find out who owns fried chicken. That’s right, fried chicken. In the United States, fried chicken is most often associated with African Americans. Sometimes that association is a positive one, other times it…
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MAMP Podcast Ep # 14: Food, Family and Finding Home with Tembi Locke
On episode # 14 of the MAMP podcast, I get to chat with debut author and actress, Tembi Locke about her beautiful new book, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily and Finding Home. From Scratch is the first selection for the My American Meltingpot Book Club. In our conversation, Tembi and I talk about…
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MAMP Podcast Ep. #12:Parenting Healthy Mixed-Race Kids
Hello Meltingpot Readers, On episode 12 of My American Meltingpot, we’re having a conversation about how to raise healthy Mixed-Race children. That is, how do we make sure our children who are more than one race, and possibly more than one culture as well, grow up feeling confident with their sense of identity? How do…
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MAMP Podcast Ep. #11: Deconstructing White Supremacy
On episode 11 of the My American Meltingpot podcast, we’re dissecting and deconstructing white supremacy with the brilliant authors of the new book, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance. Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin, both editors at the news and culture website, Colorlines, join me for a profound discussion about…
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MAMP Podcast Ep. #10: Interracial Friendships in Pop Culture and Real Life
It’s Season 2 of the My American Meltingpot podcast! Welcome Back! On episode 10 of the podcast, we’re talking about interracial friendships in real life and in pop culture. Not Everybody Has a Black or Brown Friend Even though I grew up in mostly white spaces and lived in one of the most segregated cities…
