Tag: pop culture icons
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#FridayFavorites: A Black “Rebel Queen” Sits in Denmark
Hello Meltingpot Readers, So, today’s #FridayFavorite isn’t coming from America, but rather, from Denmark. Ms. Meltingpot is giving Denmark, the country that gave the world the Lego brick, two big, brown thumbs up for their recent installation of a public statue of a Black woman, aka, Mary Thomas, aka the Rebel Queen. The New York…
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Love Not Hate: Proud by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Yesterday, April 3, Muslim communities across the UK had to deal with a disturbing and frightening threat, a threat that also made its way to the United States’ Muslim community. I refuse to use my blog to write specifically about the event, because I feel it simply adds credibility to a hate-filled…
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Six Reasons Why Mattel Has Made Me Rethink My Barbie Ban
ADIOS BARBIE Let’s just put it out there. Barbie used to be my nemesis. As a child, I found her thin, plastic limbs too angular to play with. She seemed cold and unfeeling, unlike my menagerie of soft, squishy, baby dolls and furry stuffed animals. I wanted nothing to do with Barbie or her dream…
