Melissa Harris-Perry
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About
A political scientist who is known for hosting the MSNBC show Melissa Harris-Perry weekend news program.
Before Fame
She earned a Ph.D. from Duke University after earning her B.A. from Wake Forest University.
Trivia
She wrote her second book in 2011 entitled Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America.
Family Life
She married her second husband, James Perry, in 2010. She has one daughter from her first marriage to Dennis Lacewell.
Associated With
She won the W.E.B. DuBois Book Award in 2005.
