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Constitutional law expert: Conservatives may use new voter ID laws to challenge Voting Rights Act
Kenji Yoshino, a professor of constitutional law at New York University, suggested on Melissa Harris Perry’s MSNBC show Sunday that one intentional long-term consequence of states’ efforts to pass voter ID laws may be to eliminate the pre-clearance section of the Voting Rights Act that requires some states and jurisdictions…
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…
5 Questions For: MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry on political diversity and being ‘better off’
This year’s political convention season, says MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, got complicated. Although she is in Charlotte for the Democratic National Convention this week, she missed going to Tampa, Florida last week for its Republican counterpart because real life got in the way. Hurricane Isaac’s path, which initially threatened the…
Melissa Harris-Perry: ‘What is riskier than living poor in America?’
A discussion on the racialized political rhetoric surrounding welfare took a turn close to home for Melissa Harris-Perry on her show Saturday morning, as she offered author and BusinessWeek columnist Monica Mehta a glimpse at the kind of places in which people who need of social-assistance programs often live. Harris-Perry’s…
Harris-Perry: Romney would be Bush-but-worse on foreign policy
Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” guest host Melissa Harris-Perry attempted to glean a greater truth from all of the hullaballoo over Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)’s disastrous trip to the 2012 London Summer Olympics. She compared and contrasted Romney’s trip abroad with then-Senator Barack Obama’s trip…
Harris-Perry: We should be discussing the political questions raised by Aurora
Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” guest host Melissa Harris-Perry discussed the question of whether or not it is appropriate to politicize the tragedy that took place when a gunman opened fire late Thursday night on a crowd of theater-goers in Aurora, Colorado. Both presidential campaigns suspended operations on…
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…
WATCH LIVE: Van Jones and Melissa Harris-Perry talk winning in November
The progressive conference Take Back the American Dream, sponsored by the Campaign for America’s Future (CAF), begins Monday with an opening plenary with environmental justice activist Van Jones, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, and CAF’s Robert Borosage. The topic of conversation this morning? Winning in November — and beyond. Watch this…
Harris-Perry gives white people’s guide to talk Trayvon Martin
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry continued her usual comfort in discussing race issues Saturday morning, providing any Caucasian-American with some steps to overcome any fears talking about Trayvon Martin. The Tulane professor, whose mother is white, was inspired to do her segment after watching Jon Stewart’s reaction to mentioning Martin’s story…
In defense of sincere wingnuttery as a real phenomenon
Melissa Harris-Perry went on Rachel Maddow last night and was in heightened ass-kicking form. The topic was the overt way Republicans are cruising for the bigot vote this election—right when I’d argue they would get the bigot vote no matter how subtly they played that card—but Melissa brought it around…
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