Tag: Philly
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How to Celebrate MLK Day During a Global Pandemic
Hello Meltingpot Community, Next Monday, January 18, is the day we in the United States are supposed to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., the man and his legacy. For the last several years, Americans have been urged to “celebrate” by rolling up their sleeves and doing some sort of community service work, or some type…
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Dear Black People: An Open Letter to the Black Families on Philly’s Main Line
Dear Black People on the Main Line, No, not all the Black people. I’m sure some of you are super happy there and if you are, please feel free to completely disregard everything I’m about to say. I’m actually talking to the Friday family that was profiled in the depressing and disheartening story in the…
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Author Crush #437: Mat Johnson & Loving Day
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Pardon my absence. I was in the woods of Northern Pennsylvania on a writing retreat all last week. It was absolutely exquisite and I made a lot of progress on my new book, Same Family, Different Colors. I also ate really delicious food, made great new friends and saw a big, black…
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At Least We Talk About Race in the USA: Zadie Smith on Writing, Race and Color
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Last week Wednesday I skipped out of work as early as possible so I could get a front row seat at the University of Pennsylvania’s Speaker’s Series on Color featuring one of my all-time favorite authors, Zadie Smith. I’ve read (and own) almost all of Smith’s fiction, but I am also a…
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Ms. Meltingpot Meets “The Bald Mermaid:” Sheila Bridges
Hi Meltingpot Readers, Last Thursday I had the wonderful opportunity to do a reading here in Philadelphia with the amazing Sheila Bridges. She is a well-known interior designer, TV personality and author. We were on a panel together where she spoke about her memoir The Bald Mermaid and I was reading from Hair Story: Untangling…
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Videshi Magazine is Here!
Hi Meltingpot Readers, When you get a chance, hop on over to Videshi Magazine. It’s a super cool new online publication that covers South-Asians / South-Asian Americans in the entertainment industry. It looks spectacular, the articles are smart and, come on, it’s about time something like this existed. The best part is, Videshi is the…
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Ms. Meltingpot is Guilty of Racial Profiling. But So Are You… probably
Hi Meltingpot Readers, I have to come clean. I am completely guilty of racial profiling. But it’s probably not what you think. The other day my body was crying out for a massage. Babygirl had been sick and sleeping in our bed for more than a week. In an effort not to crush her adorable…
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“Not the Nanny” Syndrome is Multi-Generational
Hi Meltingpot Readers, So, we just had a huge baby shower for my cousin who is expecting her first child. We’re the same age so the fact that she is having her first child now was truly a cause for celebration, so my entire extended family descended upon Philadelphia for the shower. And of course,…
