The
Melissa Harris-Perry Show premiered on Feb. 4, airing on Saturday and Sunday, 10 am to Noon EST.
The show is the only politically themed program hosted by an African-American woman on a cable news network.
Dr. Harris-Perry
has been a long-standing political analyst and contributor to MSNBC. She
frequently appears as a guest on Al Sharpton's Politics Nation, and she also served as
occasional host of The Rachel Maddow Show and The Last Word.
She received a bachelor of arts in English from Wake
Forest University in 1994 and a Ph.D. in political science from Duke University
in 1999. Dr. Harris-Perry considers her Wake Forest mentor, Maya Angelou, to be
her most important inspiration for becoming a professor. Prior to her position
as Professor of Political Science at Tulane University, she was an associate
professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton University from
2006 to 2010, and taught political science at the University of Chicago from
1999 to 2005.
“Melissa’s
thoughtful analysis has been an incredible addition to our primetime programs
and I’m thrilled to have her join our expanded weekend line-up,” said MSNBC President Phil Griffin.
Not
only does the Tulane University professor host her own two-hour show on MSNBC, but Dr. Harris-Perry
continues to write her “Sister Citizen” column for The Nation magazine and continues to teach
and promote her second book, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in
America (Yale 2011), which examines the effects of persistent
harmful stereotypes on Black women in politics. Her first
book, Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black
Political Thought, won the 2005 W. E. B. Du Bois Book Award.
“This
is an extraordinary opportunity,” said Harris-Perry. “All I’ve ever wanted to
be is a teacher. Phil Griffin and MSNBC are giving me the chance to have a much
bigger classroom.”
I
highly recommend the MHP show and hope you’ll be tuning in soon. The subject
matter is timely and covers a wide range of diverse topics formatted in lively
discussions with interesting participants. There are a number of featured segments, i.e. "Did she really say that?" and "Foot Soldiers". If you aren’t an early bird on Saturday
morning and attend church on Sunday morning, just do as I do, tape the show and
you can watch it at your leisure.
Congratulations,
Dr. Harris-Perry or better yet, way to go, sister girl!
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