What is Melissa Harris-Perry?
[[File:Melissa Harris-Perry by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|Melissa Harris-Perry]] '''Melissa Victoria Harris-Perry''' (born October 2, 1973) is an [[Americans|American]] [[television host]] and [[writer]]. She hosts a television programme on [[MSNBC]] called ''Melissa Harris-Perry''. ==Life and career== She got a Ph.D. in [[political science]] from [[Duke University]] in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.melissaharrisperry.com/about.html |title=Melissa Harris-Perry: Professor &#124; Author &#124; African-American &#124; Intellectual |access-date=2013-12-02 |archive-date=2010-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101023090345/http://melissaharrisperry.com/about.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> That year she married Dennis Lacewell. She [[divorced]] him in 2005. She is a professor of political science at [[Tulane University]]. In 2004, her first book ''Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought'' was published. In 2011, Yale Press published Perry's book ''Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://yalebooks.yale.edu/|title=Welcome - Yale University Press|website=yalebooks.yale.edu}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://melissaharrisperry.com/ Official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206230815/http://www.melissaharrisperry.com/ |date=2013-12-06 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Harris-Perry, Melissa}} [[Category:1973 births]] [[Category:African-American writers]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American television presenters]] [[Category:Academics from Louisiana]] {{US-bio-stub}}