Tag: Diversity in America
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My American Meltingpot Live! This Friday March 8
Hello Meltingpot Readers, If any of you are in the Philadelphia area and would like to participate in a live meltingpot experience this Friday, please consider coming to my first in-person event. I will be a guest of New Season Books and Media at their pop-up HeArt Space experience in Landsdowne, PA, talking about my…
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Celebrate Diversity 2019 Challenge
Hello Meltingpot Readers, I hope you didn’t miss me while I was gone. But I really needed to do some reflection and planning for the upcoming year. I love this blog and I love the opportunities it affords me to share news, information and opinion on all things pop culture, parenting and identity politics. I…
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Why I Blog: Reflections After BlogHer 2018
Hello Meltingpot Readers, I apologize for not posting on Wednesday, but I was at the BlogHer blogging conference on Wednesday and Thursday and didn’t have time to write. Instead, I was getting my own dose of inspiration and information to bring back to My American Meltingpot. Let me just say, it was a whirlwind two…
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This Revolution Will Be in Color
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Last week I wrote about the media’s whitewashing of victimhood in the current coverage of gun violence in America. Today, I am thrilled to write about the diversity of voices that were heard and highlighted in the weekend’s national March For Our Lives. From Emma Gonzalez, who brought the world to tears…
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Is a Mixed-Race Family on Network TV News Anymore?
Remember that 2013 Cheerios commercial that had the racists losing their pea-sized minds? You know, the one that featured a Black dad, a white mom and their adorable little brown daughter who wanted her dad to eat Cheerios to make sure he stayed healthy. So many racists left evil, nasty messages on the Cheerios YouTube…
