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Melissa Harris-Perry - Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University; Executive Director of the Pro Humanitate Institute & Former MSNBC Host; Author, "Barbershops, Bibles, and BET" & "Sister Citizen"

Melissa Harris-Perry

Profile updated July 24, 2025
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Harris-Perry, Barber, Rice highlight area college graduations

Harris-Perry will be the keynote speaker May 13 at 9:45 a.m. at Winston-Salem State University’s commencement ceremony at Bowman Gray Stadium.

Melissa Harris-Perry exit puts focus on MSNBC's diversity record

MSNBC's facelift over the past two years has cut the airtime of some of its most prominent minority personalities — and it is starting to be noticed.

Melissa Harris-Perry to MSNBC: I am not a 'little brown bobble head'

Frustrated with the fact that election coverage has sidelined her MSNBC show in recent weeks, Melissa Harris-Perry announced in an email to her staff published Friday that she doesn't plan to resume her hosting duties this weekend. "Here is the reality: our show was taken?—?without comment or discussion or notice?—?in the midst of an election season," Harris-Perry wrote in a note to staff published on Medium by former colleague Jamil Smith.

MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry walks off show in protest

MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry is refusing to host her show this Saturday due to weeks of pre-emptions that she says have left her "silenced."

Books by Melissa Harris-Perry

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America - Book by Melissa Harris-Perry

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America” (2013)

Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought - Book by Melissa Harris-Perry

Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought” (2006)

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