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Melissa Harris-Perry on Politics, Maya Angelou, And The Role of TV News

Melissa Harris-Perry.
Melissa Harris-Perry.

Amid growing national calls for healing and unity, Melissa Harris-Perry says it’s time to disrupt the institutions that divide us. One of those, she says, is cable TV news.

This hour, Harris-Perry talks about her career as a TV news host, and as a politics professor. We’ll also hear about why it’s so important to tell diverse stories and hear how she’s making sense of this political moment.

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Melissa Harris-Perry – the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake University and founder of the Anna Julia Cooper Center

Catie Talarski was a senior director of storytelling and radio programming at Connecticut Public.
Dr. Khalilah L. Brown-Dean is an award-winning scholar at Wesleyan University, author, and host of 'Disrupted' on Connecticut Public.

Funding provided by:
The Connecticut Office of Film, Television and Digital Media