MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry briefly lost her usual professional cool on Saturday morning when a guest on her show suggested that entrepreneurs who start new business are not afraid of taking big risks in their lives, compared to the poor people who never succeed. Harris-Perry, a political science professor at Tulane, had been sparring all [...]
Melissa Harris-Perry: Republicans Doing Poor Job of Using Race against Obama
June 4, 2012 | Posted by
In a provocative column in The Nation, Tulane professor and rising MSNBC star Melissa Harris-Perry says she is surprised by how poorly and clumsily Republicans are attempting to play the “race card” in their desperate campaign to defeat President Obama. Harris-Perry, whose new weekend show on MSNBC is drawing legions of fans because of its [...]
