Tag: Lori L. Tharps
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Ms. Meltingpot Is Taking a Break
Hello Meltingpot Community, I promised myself I would take August off from content creation. No blogging. No podcasting. No writing. I wanted to spend the month of August recharging and reflecting. I wanted to spend some time thinking about how I wanted go forward with this blog and the podcast. I also wanted to once…
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Lori is Going Live Today at 4pm! Let’s Talk About this Moment
Hello Meltingpot Community, I have so much to say about this moment we’re in right now in the United States, I decided to go Live on Instagram today at 4pmEST to share my thoughts and feelings. Please feel free to tune in if you want to hear what I have to say and/or ask me…
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Declaring War on Black Hair Ignorance Starts Now
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Welcome to the first full week of Black History Month 2019. Over the years, I’ve had a lot to say about Black History Month and have tried to celebrate it in different ways. There were also years I wanted to boycott Black History Month, because I believed separating Black history from American…
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Happy New Year, Meltingpot Community!
Dear Meltingpot Community, I’m going to be honest. I’ve been so caught up in getting my Kickstarter campaign funded in the last waning hours of 2018, I haven’t spent that much time planing for 2019. That’s not how I wanted to start the new year, but that’s something I know I have to work on.…
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Five Fun Facts about Ms. Meltingpot
Hello Dear Readers, Even though I’ve been blogging for more than 12 years, I haven’t used this space to share a whole lot about my personal life. Despite the fact that I wrote a memoir filled with a lot of embarrassing personal information, I still somehow feel shy here in cyberspace. But in the spirit…
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And Speaking of Books…Same Family, Different Colors is Almost Here!
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Remember way back in May 2014, when I announced that I’d gotten a new book deal and I would be writing a book about skin color politics in diverse communities? Well Ms. Meltingpot has been chugging along and things are moving so quickly, I can hardly believe it. The book is now…
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Happy Birthday, “Substitute Me!”
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Sorry for dropping off the face of the earth. I could give you a list of reasons why I have neglected you so, but do you really want to waste your time reading about my pitiful life? No, you want to get to the good stuff, right? So, on this day, five…
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My Protest on the Page: The #CapitalBCampaign is Launched!
Hi Meltingpot Readers, I’ve been busy since the last time I wrote. Besides making a fabulous Thanksgiving dinner for 15 people, I’ve started a revolution in the name of respect. Dear readers, you all know how I feel about the capital B situation in printed work. It drives me nuts that Black Americans are written…
