A perfect storm of slow news and cultural provocation elevated Melissa Harris-Perry‘s New Year’s weekend segment, which used Kieran Romney‘s appearance in a Romney family photo as a setup for jokes ...

Over the weekend, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry appeared to be giving Rachel Dolezal the benefit of the doubt when she asked her panel, “Is it possible that she might actually be black?” and brought up ...

The indomitable Melissa Harris-Perry, once the voice of the weekends through her two-hour show on MSNBC—at once ritual before brunch or church or work and a much-needed respite from the unceasing ...

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry made good on her vow to boycott her own show on Saturday, refusing to anchor her weekend program as she wages an extraordinary public war with the executives whom she ...

The comptroller for Dutchess County, N.Y., a northern suburb of New York City, is facing the wrath of politicians and citizens alike after tweeting a message in which he referred to MSNBC news anchor ...

*MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry describes a disturbing encounter with a man in Iowa on Monday while she was there covering the caucuses. In an essay published at the website of Wake Forest University ...

Former MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry has found her new gig. Harris-Perry will join BET News as a special correspondent, the network confirmed in a tweet on Monday. First up on her schedule is ...

Melissa Harris-Perry — who hosts thethe MSNBC weekend show “Melissa Harris-Perry” and taught at Princeton from 2006 until 2010 — is now switching academic homes once again, this time to her alma mater ...

MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: “I also appreciate that the hunger strikers are not trying to die. TheyÆre trying to generate autonomy in the context of something that strips their humanity” Stay connected with ...

Melissa Harris-Perry appears on the set of her self-titled show in New York in 2012. MSNBC announced Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, that it is severing ties with the host after she declared she would not ...

I grew up in a household marked by financial insecurity. As a single parent, my mom—a well-educated woman who was trapped in low-paying jobs—sometimes struggled to provide for my sister and me. Mom ...

AMES, Iowa – Melissa Harris-Perry, host of an MSNBC weekend program and political science professor at Tulane University, will speak at Iowa State University on Feb. 11. Harris-Perry will present “How ...