Melissa Harris-Perry | The Nation
Melissa Harris-Perry
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Melissa Harris-Perry
Melissa Harris-Perry is professor of political science at Tulane University, where she is founding director of the Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South. She is author of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America. She is also a contributor to MSNBC.
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Sooner or later, marriage equality will win. What happens to marriage then?
President Obama’s symbolic recognition of minorities isn’t a substitute for policy, but it does matter.
In crafting laws after the horrifying killings in Connecticut, it’s crucial that we recognize our own collective trauma before we rush to act.
The impact of an Obama presidency is better answered by partisanship than race—but race still matters.
The stakes are high for students unlucky enough to be caught in the crossfire.
Has Hurricane Isaac taught Bobby Jindal that in the face of natural disaster, small government is no help?
It’s time to update Nina Simone's iconic song title—the GOP veep candidate is just as extreme on women’s health and rights as he is on economics.
Republicans are turning to tired, failed strategies in an effort to alienate both black and white voters from President Obama.
A diverse democracy requires us to be able to live near one another, to come together in public space and to engage across differences.
Despite the end of Jim Crow, it is once again socially, politically and legally acceptable to presume the guilt of nonwhite bodies.
