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Melissa Harris-Perry

  • Maya Angelou Presidential Chair, Wake Forest University
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Maya Angelou Presidential Chair @WakeForest. Founder & President @AJCCenter. Leader of Girl Scout Troop 10116. Wife of @JamesHPerry. Mom of Parker & Anna.
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Cultural Contracts: I Do and I Don't

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By Nneka Onwuzurike, Melissa Harris-Perry, Faith Adiele, N.F. Kenure
| The Offing Verified
My boyfriend said to me over the phone one warm evening in September years ago, ‘Hey, any chance we could get married by December?’ It was not the romantic proposal of any girl’s dream by any stretch of the imagination. To be fair to him, John — I’ll call him John as it’s a no-fuss and practical name that suits him — had been talking about getting married for a while, and I had been trying to sidestep it.
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Women of Color Mobilizing Before the Midterms and The Passing of Queen Elizabeth II on Apple Podcasts

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By Sayu Bhojwani, Melissa Harris-Perry, Bobby Ghosh Verified, Hagar Chemali, Steve Lack, Natyna Bean, Archie Moore, Emily Daly, Lauren Schild, Emily Ho, Farai Chideya, Kelsey Kudak, Bridget McAllister, Carter Martin, Hannah Looney, Traci Caldwell
| Apple Podcasts
This week, Farai interviews Dr. Sayu Bhojwani, civic entrepreneur and founder of Women’s Democracy Lab, about what it takes to create a more inclusive democracy and what current intraparty tensions reveal about the election field ahead of the midterms.
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Experts see Supreme Court ruling as another broken promise on tribal affairs

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By Melissa Harris-Perry, Allison Herrera Verified
| KOSU-FM (Stillwater, Oklahoma) Verified
The 2022 Supreme Court ruling on Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta granted the state of Oklahoma the power to prosecute non-Indians who commit felony crimes against tribal citizens on reservation land. It comes just two years after a landmark decision inMcGirt v. Oklahoma, which resulted in 40% of eastern Oklahoma being affirmed as reservation land, thereby expanding tribal jurisdiction over criminal cases there.
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