Tag: Same Family Different Colors
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Diverse News Digest: Black hair, White Babies and IKEA
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Are you ready for your weekly dose of diverse news? This week’s news stories don’t disappoint when it comes to diversity. You may be enraged or inspired by what you read here, but you will most definitely be informed about what is keeping our world colorful. Enjoy! Dreadlocks on the Mat Remember…
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Why We Can’t Wait to Talk About Colorism
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Can we talk about colorism? What I mean is, are we allowed to talk freely, out in the open, about colorism? It’s always been deemed a taboo topic, something we don’t speak about in polite company. So, has that changed in the last few years? Has something shifted in the cultural zeitgeist…
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The Colorism Chronicles: When Mommy is White But Her Kids are Brown
Hello Meltingpot Readers, The summer after my book Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America’s Diverse Families was released, I decided to create an accompanying video series to further explore what life was like in nuclear families where skin color variations and colorism were part of the family dynamic. Because conversations around color are…
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“Hearts Beat Loud” Is the Meltingpot Movie I’ve Been Waiting For
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Full disclosure, I haven’t even seen the new indie film, Hearts Beat Loud yet, but based on the trailer alone, I love it. (And no, I haven’t read any reviews because I don’t want to spoil my fun.) From what I can gather, it’s about a middle-aged dad who records a song…
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“I Finally Look Black!” and Other Comments By My Kids About Color + Identity
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Last week, babygirl, who is now six-and-a-half, was playing in my room and trying on my clothes and jewelry. She picked up one of my African print scarves and tied it around her head, looked in the mirror and exclaimed, “Oh, wow, I finally look Black!” I stopped what I was doing.…
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Can A Black Man Get an Amen At a Royal Wedding?
Hello Meltingpot Readers, I’m sure it will come as no surprise that I watched Meghan and Harry’s wedding from start to finish on Saturday. Please note, I did not get up at four in the morning to watch it live because I don’t stan for the royals like that, even if this was the first…
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Meghan Markle & Prince Harry Bring the Meltingpot to the Royal Family
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Maybe the chaos and despair happening all over the world has got your mind anywhere but on the goings on of the British royal family. Well, I’m here to remind you that this Saturday, on May 19th, Prince Harry is marrying the biracial, American actress, Meghan Markle making the royal family a…
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Transracial Adoption on Trial
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Update: While this story doesn’t shed any new light on the facts of this horrific story, Dr. Stacy Patton explains very clearly in the Washington Post how racism could be partly to blame for the death of the Hart children. It’s not necessarily the racism of the white mothers, but the racism…