Black History Lunch and Learn: Colorism, with Latarsha Woods
New author Latarsha Woods first wrote My Melanin Is Poppin On My Beautiful Brown Skin as a poem to encourage her daughters Destiny, Trinity, and Serenity to celebrate their differences and likes. Since then, Latarsha Woods has transformed this beautiful poem into a children’s book for other brown-skinned boys and girls around the world. Combating the stereotypes of colorism, this inspirational book was written to encourage girls and boys of color to love their beautiful brown skin and to celebrate each other's differences and likes.
Merriam-Webster defines Colorism as "prejudice or discrimination especially within a racial or ethnic group favoring people with lighter skin over those with darker skin". https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colorism Join us for a discussion of Colorism and My Melanin Is Poppin On My Beautiful Brown Skin with author Latarsha Woods.
- Date:
- Tuesday, June 8, 2021
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
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Meldon Jenkins-Jones is the Richmond Public Library / Community Services Manager at Hull Street Branch Library.
Meldon also chairs the Get Lit Advisory Committee which supports the Richmond Public Library Get Lit Reading Initiatives including the Black Male Emergent Readers (BMER) program and the Lit Chicks Read book clubs.
Meldon is a graduate of the Leadership Metro Richmond Class of 2022. She was the first recipient of the Virginia Library Association (VLA) Librarians of Color Forum Award in 2021 and is an active member of VLA. She presented “Libraries Bringing Community Together” at the 2023 VLA Annual Conference.
In 2011, Meldon received her Master of Library and Information Studies from Florida State University. She received her Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers University School of Law—Newark and practiced law in New Jersey until her retirement in 2003. Meldon received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she studied African American Studies and Russian Civilization.
A Metro Richmond resident, Meldon is the mother of two adult children and enjoys spending time with her grandchildren.
