Tag: Interracial marriage in America
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Celebrating Loving Day is a Blow to White Supremacy
For those of you who don’t know, Loving Day is the anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision, Loving v. Virginia which struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in sixteen U.S. states. What that means, is that on this day 53 years ago, it finally became legal for people of different races to…
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The Other Side of Loving Day: Interracial Relationships in the Age of Trump
Hello Meltingpot Readers, As a writer and blogger, I’m a chronic oversharer. I’ve literally blogged about everything from birth to my struggles with weight. Still, I hesitated to write about the things that happen behind the scenes in my interracial marriage in the age of Trump. That felt too personal. Too risky. Too taboo. But…
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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 Bonus Episode: My Multicultural Marriage
Hello Meltingpot Readers, I feel so sneaky because even though we wrapped Season 1 of the podcast two weeks ago, we just released a bonus episode last night. Why, because I felt like something was missing. And that something, was me. Let me explain. For those of you who have been loyal readers here, my…
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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,…
