Sister Citizen

Melissa Harris-Perry

Are We All Black Americans Now? (Class, Racism and Discrimination, Gap Between Wealth and Poverty, Society)

More and more Americans are learning what it feels like to be unsafe and unprotected. In other words, they're learning what it's like to be black.

Melissa Harris-Perry

The War on Women's Futures (Racism and Discrimination, Reproductive Rights, Conservatives and the American Right)

The ultimate aim of the GOP's social agenda is to force women back into the home.

Melissa Harris-Perry

Politics and the Pleasure Principle (Activism, Politics)

Faced with bitter circumstances, we gain a lot in remembering to have fun.

Melissa Harris-Perry

Obama in the Age of Accommodation (Barack Obama, Race and Religion, Society)

When considering Obama's presidency in the long view, remember that history provides many more examples of thwarted resistance than it does of sweeping social change.

Melissa Harris-Perry

The Misunderestimation of Sarah Palin (Media Analysis, Conservatives and the American Right, Tea Party)

As American life becomes more and more like reality television, could product placement of a candidate become the surest route to the presidency?

Melissa Harris-Perry

To Whom Apologies Are Really Due (Racism and Discrimination, Gender and Sexuality, Politics)

Ginni Thomas's insistence that Anita Hill apologize is an apt metaphor for the long history of blaming black women for social ills.

Melissa Harris-Perry

Fighting for Change, Longing for the Sea (Legislative Campaigns and Elections, History)

Predictable Democratic losses in November aren't what we should fear. The real danger is in a political environment unable to build even the most tenuous bridges across partisan divides.

Melissa Harris-Perry

What Are Words Worth? (Racism and Discrimination, Conservatives and the American Right)

Speech is not the only, or even the most powerful, conduit of racial liberation—or racial oppression.

Melissa Harris-Perry