Lori Tharps - An Upbeat Voice for Multiracial Equality

With her books, podcast, blog, and articles, Lori leads people to think and act differently around issues of race and color.

Enjoy her stories — growing up in white Milwaukee suburbs supported by a huge extended black family … meeting a vast diversity of black people while writing for Vibe magazine in New York … her first book, celebrating black hair in its natural state and revealing the campaign against it … discovering a home for her multiracial family in Mt Airy, so different from neighborhoods in common stories of segregated America … researching “colorism” and the wide range of family dynamics when people are the same race but different colors … coping with being mistaken for the nanny of her light-skinned daughter … and more.

Celebrating multi-racial experiences that work, calling out injustice, and explaining how historical roots of inequality affect people today, Lori is an antidote to negative narratives of black experience.

Podcast website: https://nwphillypodcast.net

More about Lori Tharps:

• My American Meltingpot blog and podcast
  • Selling Your House While Black
  • Deconstructing White Supremacy
  • Celebrating Juneteenth Is As American as Strawberry Soda
  • The Solution for Starbucks in 5 Easy Steps
• Temple University bio
• Books
  • Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream (with Ibtihaj Muhammad)
  • Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America's Diverse Families
  • Substitute Me
  • Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America (with Ayana Byrd)
  • Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain
• Articles
  • The Difference Between Racism and Colorism (Time 2016)
  • When Black Hair Is Against the Rules (NY Times op ed, 2014)
  • Does your son or daughter need a black pride tune-up? (WHYY, 2015)