Melissa Harris-Perry

Melissa Victoria Harris-Perry (born October 2, 1973) is an American television host and writer. She hosts a television programme on MSNBC called Melissa Harris-Perry.

Life and career

She got a Ph.D. in political science from Duke University in 1999.^[1] That year she married Dennis Lacewell. She divorced him in 2005. She is a professor of political science at Tulane University. In 2004, her first book Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought was published. In 2011, Yale Press published Perry's book Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America.^[2]

References

↑ "Melissa Harris-Perry: Professor | Author | African-American | Intellectual". Archived from the original on 2010-10-23. Retrieved 2013-12-02.
↑ "Welcome - Yale University Press". yalebooks.yale.edu.

Other websites

Official website Archived 2013-12-06 at the Wayback Machine

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[1] "Melissa Harris-Perry: Professor | Author | African-American | Intellectual". Archived from the original on 2010-10-23. Retrieved 2013-12-02.

[2] "Welcome - Yale University Press". yalebooks.yale.edu.

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