Subscribe here: Melissa Harris-Perry has been called one of our foremost public intellectuals. Along with being an author, professor, mother, and unabashed feminist, she's the eponymous host of a successful show on MSNBC where she brings social and political issues to the forefront each week. Though she writes and speaks honestly about being a black woman in America, her opinions aren't always popular. When Rachel Dolezal's “transracial“ controversy fascinated the internet
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