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Harris-Perry: Ending drug war may be ‘best gun control measure we can enact’
Melissa Harris-Perry and her guests on Sunday discussed whether the best answer to gun violence is ending the “War on Drugs.” About 800 people die every year as a result of gang violence, Harris-Perry said, “a large percentage of which are connected to drug trafficking.” When it comes to gun…
Harris-Perry: What role does race play in gun violence reporting?
Saturday morning on MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry,” host Harris-Perry and a panel including Joy Reid of “The Grio” and “Huffpost Live” host Alicia Mendez discussed the role of race in media reporting and its impact on the gun violence debate, both with regards to the people reporting the news and the…
Harris-Perry: Jindal doesn’t ‘give a damn’ about Louisianans
Melissa Harris-Perry said on her Nov. 17 show that she wanted to send a letter to her governor, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. Earlier this week, the state’s secretary of health sent a letter to the Obama administration declining to set up health insurance exchanges. Then New Orleans’ mayor wrote to…
Harris-Perry to Mourdock: Assaults on choice are assaults on women
Saturday on MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry,” host Harris-Perry directed an open letter to Indiana candidate for U.S. Senate Richard Mourdock, the latest Republican candidate to go on the record saying that there should not be an exception in abortion laws for victims of rape and incest, but rather that women should…
Harris-Perry: ‘Disgusting’ voter-suppression tactics still spreading
On her show Saturday, Melissa Harris-Perry addressed some of the newer, more subtle voter-suppression tactics being reported not only in several states, but now in different languages. Besides billboards in Ohio and Wisconsin threatening enormous fines and prison sentences for “voter fraud,” Harris-Perry noted the appearance of a Spanish-language billboard…
Harris-Perry: I was told ‘actual poor people live in the Third World’
Melissa Harris-Perry returned to the topic of poverty on her show Saturday morning, not only to discuss its absence from both major parties’ political conventions, but the fallout from her impassioned explanation of what it’s like to actually be poor in America. Among the hate mail she got, Harris-Perry told…
Melissa Harris-Perry: ‘Our fear of each other’ makes us ‘easy to divide’
At Monday’s opening plenary of the progressive Take Back America conference in Washington, D.C., Tulane University professor and MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry traced the complex path progressives have taken in the post-September 11 world, pointing out how creating racial enemies creates a “fear of each other” that makes Americans “exceptionally…
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