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*Melissa Harris-Perry passionately defended her headline-making MSNBC promo during her weekend MSNBC show, assuring viewers that she is not trying to steal their kids, yet firmly standing by her ad. Harris-Perry was labeled “communist” by tons of conservatives for saying that society needed to think in a collective manner about its children and that “we [...]
*Melissa Harris-Perry went hard after critics went in on her about an MSNBC “Lean In” promo/ad. In a blog post, she said that she received “hateful, personal attacks” after conservatives targeted the promo/ad (below) in which she said that “kids belong to whole communities.” She went on to defend what she called an “uncontroversial comment,” and [...]
*A new “Lean Forward” ad from MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry has irked Sarah Palin and some of her conservative media friends. In the spot, MHP argues that the U.S. should invest more in public education. “We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had kind of a [...]
*The Harlem Shake video meme has really taken on a life of its own. But, just like us, one journalist takes issue with the videos not really displaying the Harlem Shake and she finds it downright disrespectful…along with some residents of Harlem. Melissa Harris-Perry is known for taking down political powerhouses from the right wing [...]
*MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, an African American, made a bold move when she invited a panel of guests on her Sunday show to dissect the importance of racial jokes in society. “Maybe race jokes are the place where we can actually talk about race?” Harris-Perry asked her guests; which consisted of a mixture of social [...]
*The Tuskegee Experiment included 600 black men (399 with Syphilis and 201 without) that were led down a road of deception by not only the federal government, but one of their own that they thought they could trust. Nurse Rivers, who knew the experiment was all a lie and that they were not really being [...]
*Since meteorologist Rhonda Lee was let go from the CBS affiliate news station KTBS in Shreveport, LA, fans and activists have rallied behind her, insisting the company’s decision was motivated by her ‘ethnic look’. Lee was interviewed on MSNBC by host Thomas Roberts in a panel discussion with fellow anchor Melisssa Harris-Perry, who commended Lee for standing up [...]
*(Via Mediaite) – Melissa Harris-Perry, host of MSNBC’s newest weekend show Melissa Harris-Perry, normally uses her “Open Letter” segment to dispense wisdom to some conservative who badly needs it, and normally, those open letters are to human beings. On Saturday morning’s MHP, the host and Tulane Professor penned her weekly missive to Cobbler, one of [...]
*Wowser! Wowser! If you missed her MSNBC show Saturday morning (09-01-12) , Melissa Harris Perry went nuclear and rightfully so, one could argue. She couldn’t take it anymore when a guest asserted that the “big thing” missing in the President’s “you didn’t build that speech” was an emphasis on taking risks, raising her voice and [...]
*While it’s not exactly like Katrina in sheer force and damage, for the folks in Louisiana Hurricane Issac is no punk, either. Just ask MSNBC host Melissa Harris Perry. Yesterday she tweeted that her new home had been destroyed by the storm. Harris-Perry and her husband closed on the purchase of what one could only [...]
*Everyone knows the ritual between Thursday and Saturday. It’s hair time in the black community! Now any day can be a hair day, but a lot of ladies are getting ready for the festive weekend and need their do to be as done as it can look when they get there. The natural look has [...]
*When “The Help” first came out, Melissa Harris-Perry quickly became one of its most vocal critics, arguing that the film sets back black actors by reducing them to the role of maids and glossing over some of the more heinous aspects of the black domestic worker experience. Now that “The Help” is is up for [...]
*Melissa Harris-Perry is on her way to the top. It seems like the heavy criticism her archenemy Cornel West bestowed upon her hasn’t affected her at all. She’s getting ready to join MSNBC’s news as its newest anchor. According to the network’s president, Phil Griffin, Harris-Perry’s keeping the attention of audiences nationwide, but she didn’t [...]
*The intellectual television market has been cornered on MSNBC. They have an impressive roster on their evening line-up that include veteran journalists with not so shabby educational backgrounds. One example is Rachel Maddow, who is a Rhodes Scholar. She is so smart that she had the good common sense to bring on a young scholar [...]
*Cornel West is the topic of conversation again after making his opinion known once more, but this time about Melissa Harris-Perry. As we reported yesterday, he called her a “liar” and that “[s]he’s become the momentary darling of liberals, but I pray for her because she’s in over her head. She’s a fake and a [...]
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