Melissa Harris-Perry holds the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University, where she is the Executive Director of the Pro Humanitate Institute and founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center. She is the author of the award-winning Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, and Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America. She is the former host of “Melissa Harris-Perry”, which broadcast live on MSNBC. More about this author >