Tag: Identity Politics in America
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“By Law, By Love: A Documentary about Race, Family and Identity” by Angel Hogan
Hello Meltingpot Readers, If you’ve been listening to Season 2 of the MAMP podcast, then you know that the Meltingpot is a media partner for a Philadelphia-based organization called the 5 Shorts Project. The 5 Shorts Project helps aspiring filmmakers create their first short film, from concept to finished product and then gets those films…
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It’s 2019, Why Are We Still Policing Blackness?
Hello Meltingpot Readers, As we wind down the Blackest month of the year, I wanted to write something positive and inspirational about Black people in America. Instead, I’m using this penultimate Black History Month blog post to lament the continuous policing of Blackness. Not Black Enough As a Black girl who grew up in Caucasia,…
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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…
