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MHP Recap: Shola Lynch on Bringing Angela Davis to the Silver Screen

This past Saturday Melissa Harris-Perry interviewed Shola Lynch, director of the highly anticipated Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, coming to theaters in select cities this Friday. ...

Melissa Harris-Perry Has Another Super Gay Show; GLAAD Changes Its Game

Kenji Yoshino. Lisa Duggan. Academic queers know these people—but most Americans do not. Thankfully, over at Nerdland MHP and crew are exposing 'Merica to ALL THE SMART QUEER PEOPLE. ...

The LGBT Community Needs to Rally Around VAWA

VAWA, the Violence Against Women Act, has been passed by the Senate and has now moved to the House for consideration, where it is facing heated, bigoted, misogynistic, and homophobic attacks from c ...

Kenji Yoshino Breaks Down Marriage Equality Court Cases

NYU Law Professor Kenji Yoshino—the great conceptualizer of "covering," active "toning down" of a "disfavored identity to fit into the mainstream"—appeared on Melissa Harris-Perry's Sunday program ...

MHP Recap: How to Bring Environmentalism to Low Income Areas & "Roe v. Wade" at 40

Melissa Harris-Perry dedicated a large part of her weekend show to the environment, in particular, she and her panelists considered how environmentalists can bring environmentalism to low income ar ...

MHP Recap: LGBTQ Issues During Obama's Second Term

On inauguration eve Melissa Harris-Perry discussed the future of LGBTQ issues during Obama's second term. ...

MHP Recap: Non-Traditional Families

Melissa Harris-Perry wasted no time in a post-turkey food coma. ...

MHP Recap: In Support of Affirmative Action

Melissa Harris-Perry has, once again, delivered the most cogent, most articulate, and most impassioned thoughts on a "hot-button" topic in this week's episode: affirmative action. ...

Maddow & Harris-Perry Talk Race as a Social Construct

In light of MA Senator's Scott Brown's outrageous claim that his challenger Elizabeth Warren isn't Native American because...wait for it..."just look at her," Melissa Harris-Perry and Rachel Maddow ...

MHP Recap: Eastwood, Obama, and the "Invisible Man"

Reflecting on the sea of white people at the RNC and invoking Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man, Melissa Harris-Perry and her panel of both conservative and progressive guests discussed Ea ...
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