Tag: Transracial adoption
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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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MAMP History: Josephine Baker and the Original Rainbow Coalition
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Today I’m introducing a new feature here on the Meltingpot called My American Meltingpot History, where I’ll be highlighting some of the most Meltingpot moments in our nation’s past. Because mainstream history books and the lessons many of us were taught in school emphasized a segregated version of American history, many people…
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Greatest Hits from MAMP: Black hair, Black Amish and Black People Adopting White Children
Hello Meltingpot Readers, In honor of my blog-a-versary, which was yesterday, I decided to take a trip down memory lane to see what kind of blog posts attracted the most attention. Since I’ve always written about a wide range of subjects under the umbrella of race and culture and because I never utilized any SEO…
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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…
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White Moms, Black Children and a Mysterious Death
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Has anyone else been following this bizarre story about the two white adoptive moms who were found dead at the bottom of a cliff with three of their adopted Black children in their car? There are rumors circulating that this was a suicide/murder following an investigation of child abuse, but nothing has…
