Melissa Harris-Perry

Melissa Victoria Harris-Perry (born October 2, 1973) is an 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. 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.

References

Other websites
Official website 

Category:1973 births
Category:African-American writers
Category:Living people
Category:American television presenters
Category:Academics from Louisiana