Professor Writer Political Commentator
1973 -
"Never become so enamored of your own smarts that you stop signing up for life’s hard classes. Keep your conclusions light and your curiosity ferocious. Keep groping in the darkness with ravenous desire to know more."
-Melissa Harris-Perry
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Recommended Watching:
- Melissa Harris-Perry and Michaela Angela Davis
- Shame Stereotypes and Black Women in America
- Black Female Voices: A public dialogue between bell hooks and Melissa Harris-Perry
- Rutgers University 4/30/2008
- How Black Women's Stories Complicate Race and Gender Politics
- Take Back America Keynote Address 2012
- Melissa Harris-Perry Show Panel on George Zimmerman Verdict
- Melissa Harris-Perry Show Panel on Being Transgender in America
- This Country is No Place for Young Black Men
- Wellesley College Commencement Speech 2012
- Open Letter about Stand Your Ground
- Birthday Card to Michelle Obama
- The Harlem Shake
- Open Letter to Richard Murdock on Rape
- Facing Race Keynote Presentation 2010
- Nerdland Loves Scandal
- Using Artists to Fight Unjust Systems
- To a Black Girl Whose Hair was Deemed Unacceptable
- Crash Course in Black Hair
- Margaret Cho on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show
- Open Letter to Steubenville Rape Survivor
- Marriage and Equality with Melissa Harris-Perry
- How Much Do You Really Know About Drugs
- How Black Hair Matters
- Becoming Aware of the Plight of Trans People
Recommended Reading:
- The MHP Black Feminism Syllabus
- MHP Advice to Graduates: 2013
- Alec Baldwin Subtweets Melissa Harris-Perry
- Sister Citizen by Melissa Harris-Perry
- Shriver Report Confronts Wage Gap and, Poverty Rate
- Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought
- Janet Mock: A Trans Activist's Journey
- Trayvon Martin: What It's Like to Be a Problem
#StandWithMHP
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