Melissa Harris-Perry…The Christian Science Monitor
Melissa Harris – Perry
Melissa Victoria Harris-Perry is a writer, political commentator, television host and professor.
Harris-Perry is known to concentrate on race and gender issues, often speaking about the racial divide in American society.
She used her former show on MSNBC named after her – the Melissa Harris-Perry or M.H.P. as a platform to carve out her own niche.
Ron Simon, a curator of TV and radio at the Paley Center for Media, said the show is a “nice counterpoint to the older, male-dominated shows you see on the weekends” and that Harris-Perry’s influence may help open up the cable news landscape to a “multiplicity of voices.”
After expressing frustration due to MSNBC seemingly plotting to indirectly alienate Harris-Perry from her show, M.H.P was cancelled and the last show aired on February 7, 2016.
Harris-Perry is now the editor-at-large for Elle.com and a columnist for The Nation.
