Black People Politics : Melissa Harris-Perry walks away from her own MSNBC show complaining of network meddling

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Melissa Harris-Perry walks away from her own MSNBC show complaining of network meddling


In an email to coworkers, Melissa Harris-Perry said that she won't show up to host her MSNBC show this weekend after being replaced for two weeks for election coverage and allegedly losing editorial control ...


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/melissa-harris-perry-walks-away-221728240.html

Melissa Harris-Perry walks away from her own MSNBC show complaining of network meddling


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MSNBC host boycotts network: ‘I am not a token, mammy, or little brown bobble head’


... “I will not be used as a tool for [management’s] purposes,” Harris-Perry wrote in the memo. “I am not a token, mammy, or little brown bobble head. I am not owned by [NBC News Chairman Andy] Lack, [MSNBC President Phil] Griffin, or MSNBC. I love our show. I want it back. I have wept more tears than I can count, and I find this deeply painful, but I don’t want to be back on air at any cost” ...


http://nypost.com/2016/02/27/msnbc-...ot-a-token-mammy-or-little-brown-bobble-head/


MSNBC host Melissa Harris-PerryPhoto: WireImage

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MSNBC will cut ties with Melissa Harris-Perry. Whatever happened here, it’s too bad


... This much is clear: A program that has broken the staid mold for weekend political shows is not on the air with its intended host and architect. That the status of a show on which guests and content have provided context and rare insight into a changing nation passes strange. Finally, that the show has been relegated to the realm of the non-essential during a presidential election in which who and what matters in the United States seem to be central questions, well, that just seems fundamentally unwise ...


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...bcs-token-whatever-happened-here-its-too-bad/

She had it," MSNBC president Phil Griffin once said about MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry.(Heidi Gutman/MSNBC via Episodic)

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MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry refusing to appear for show


NEW YORK (AP) — The future of Melissa Harris-Perry's MSNBC talk show is in doubt after the host declared she would not appear this weekend in response to several weeks of its pre-emption by the network.

Harris-Perry, who is black, focuses on race, gender and politics on the discussion show, which she has hosted since 2012. She is also an author and a professor of political science at Wake Forest University.

The show, "Melissa Harris-Perry," is regularly scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon EST on Saturdays and Sundays. It did not air in February ...


https://www.yahoo.com/tv/msnbcs-melissa-harris-perry-refusing-appear-show-073139186.html

<p> In this Feb. 18, 2012 photo released by MSNBC, Melissa Harris-Perry appears on the set of her self-titled show in New York. Harris-Perry's MSNBC talk show was in doubt Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, after the host declared she would not appear this weekend in response to several weeks of its pre-emption by ...

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