Tag: Media
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4 Multicultural Distractions for These Dark Days
Hello Meltingpot Community, Do you know what day it is? Are you and your loved one suffering from lockdown fatigue? Are you looking for some quality multicultural distractions for you and your kids? Whether you need distractions from the shitshow happening in Minneapolis and New York City, or just from the monotony of your current…
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Ida B. Wells (Finally) Wins a Pulitzer Prize!
Hello Meltingpot Community, On Monday the Pulitzer Prizes – the Academy Awards of journalism – were announced and one particular award warmed my defiant Black journalist’s heart. Eighty-nine years after her death, Ida B. Wells received a special citation from the Pulitzer committee for her pioneering work in investigative reporting. More specifically, she was given…
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Friday Favorites: THINX Gets Diversity Right in Ads
Hello Meltingpot Readers, It’s Friday, so that means I get to share some of my favorite things. And today I want to talk about, period panties. Sorry if that grosses you out, but period panties are a thing and a necessary thing at that if you’re a woman between the ages of say 12 and…
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Friday Favorites: Touré Show
Hello Meltingpot Readers, I love Fridays. Not only because Friday is the beginning of the weekend, but because I get to share with you some of my favorite things. And this week, my favorite thing is a new podcast called, Touré Show. True confession, I’m kind of late to the podcast party. I only recently…
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#FridayFavorites: MTV’s Decoded and Diverse Beauty
Hi Meltingpot Readers, Today is Friday so I’m sharing some of my favorites. Actually, today I just want to tell you about the web series, Decoded. It’s not that new so many of you might be thinking, Ms. Meltingpot is so behind, but please don’t judge. I’m not one of those people who is always…
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The Loving Generation Explores Blackness, Whiteness and the Spaces Between
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Back in 2015, I wrote about a fascinating documentary called, Little White Lie. It was about one woman’s search for her true racial identity, after years believing she was White. That filmmaker was Lacey Schwartz and now she has directed a new digital documentary series that also explores race, biracial identity and…
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The Ghost of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Might Be Getting Ready to Haunt Whoever Okayed That Car Commercial
Hello Meltingpot Readers, I’m just going to get this out of the way right now. I’m not an Eagles fan. The truth is, I don’t really care about football at all. There I said it. But I do live in Philadelphia. I love a good underdog story and I will pretty much go anywhere for…
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Ms. Meltingpot is Coming Back to Blogging
Hello? Is anybody still out there? Anyone? I know I don’t deserve to have anybody answer me. Technically, I’ve been gone for almost two years now, but I didn’t mean it. I got caught up writing my book, Same Family, Different Colors and then promoting that book. I created a new blog for that book…
