Gay marriage advocate and author of “Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial” said on MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on Saturday that religious people will not have much freedom to discriminate gay marriage due to religious purposes, which is an “important protection for gay
Speaking in a panel on MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” with Dr. Johnathan Metzl of Vanderbilt University, who said the Charleston shooting is a “wake-up call for white America,” associate professor of African-American Religion and Literature at Princeton Yolanda Pierce shared her
During Saturday’s episode of “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC, former South Carolina State Representative Bakari Sellers responded to President Barack Obama saying that the Confederate flag should be in a museum in response to pictures of the Charleston shooter Dylann Roof posing
UPDATE: On “All In with Chris Hayes” on Tuesday, Harris-Perry conceded that it is a possibility that Dolezal could be a con artist. MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry declared that she didn’t get a “sense of” “malice, deception, or self-gain” on
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry said that “a lot of people have wanted” a white heavyweight champion “for a long time” on Saturday. In a discussion on the upcoming Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, Harris-Perry asked, “the heavyweight champion is white, and has been for a
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry said she worries “there is a social construction of evil” that influences how people view Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and police officers who kill people that are unarmed on Saturday. After criminal defense attorney Seema
Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld criticized “idiots…who recast past pain as charming” with regards to Cuba on Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Five.” Gutfeld, in reaction to CNN International urging people to visit Cuba “before American investors ruin it,” said
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry stated “I worry about American tourists and the ways that we can sometimes be a plague” in a discussion on the US opening up its relations with Cuba on Saturday. “On the one hand, it is
On March 28, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry suggested the push away from gun control and toward expanded gun rights–which means more armed, law-abiding citizens–actually puts police lives in danger.
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry said that the racist chant by members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at Oklahoma University was “not a surprising outcome” to getting rid of affirmative action on Saturday. “So, how easy is it to take — I don’t
On February 23 Cornell University held an event to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry was the guest speaker, and during her speech she took time to say she hoped Trayvon Martin “whooped the sh*t out of George Zimmerman” before Zimmerman shot him in self-defense.
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry expressed her hope that Trayvon Martin “whooped the sh*t out of’ George Zimmerman in a speech at Cornell University on Monday. In video of the speech released by the Cornell Review, she remarked “I hope he tried to
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry argued that Republicans were being inconsistent for criticizing the president for being too weak on foreign policy while simultaneously criticizing his executive action on immigration on Saturday. After playing clips of Republican leaders criticizing the president’s
On her Saturday broadcast, MSNBC’s host Melissa Harris-Perry criticized the New York Police Department’s silent protest of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. According to Harris-Perry, the protest of the civilian leader of the police force has a “chilling”
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry,” CUNY professor Frances Fox Piven laid out what she considers to be a successful protest movement, in particular regarding the “I Can’t Breathe” and “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” movements reacting to the grand
On her Saturday broadcast, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry argued that although she did not condone the arson and looting following the St. Louis grand jury decision not to indict Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson for the fatal shooting of Michael Brown
Khalil Muhammed, the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture argued that Officer Darren Wilson’s description of Mike Brown was “evoking” racial stereotypes on Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC. Muhammed said, in reaction to parts of Wilson’s
University of Pennsylvania Associate English Professor Dr. Salamishah Tillet argued that the principle that black lives don’t matter is “re-surfacing” on Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC. Tillet started by discussing “state-sanctioned” violence against black people, adding “or you have individuals, as
A panel on MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on Saturday dreamed of women having the costs of freezing their eggs covered under the Affordable Care Act during a discussion on Facebook and Apple agreeing to cover the costs of such a procedure.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid argued that “urban legends” that Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan lied to get into the US, were the result of thinking that “the body of an African is itself kind of a weapon” on MSNBC’s “Melissa
MSNBC’s Joy Reid and Melissa Harris-Perry argued that supporters of personhood amendments are trying to take away birth control on Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC. After Harris-Perry expressed support for fetal homicide laws, saying “sometimes we want to protect
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry compared complaints about “outside agitators” stirring up violence in Ferguson to the rhetoric of Eugene “Bull” Connor on Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry.” Some of the reports of outside agitators instigating violence in Ferguson have been made by
In relation to last weeks controversy and protests surrounding the police fatally shooting Michael Brown, Saturday MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry made the argument that black men in America are still being treated as they were when slavery was still legal in
On her Saturday MSNBC program, Melissa Harris-Perry railed against those protesting the flow of unaccompanied illegal immigration children across the southern U.S. border. She particularly took aim at Gov. Rick Perry’s use of his state’s National Guard at the border
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Political Nation,” host Al Sharpton and fellow MSNBC anchor Melissa Harris-Perry discussed the Republicans opposition to President Barack Obama, in particular rhetoric from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and the “ugly” lawsuit Speaker of
