Melissa Harris-Perry's roots in civil rights

Melissa Harris-Perry's roots in civil rights

Aug. 23: Rachel Maddow reveals a bit of the biography of her MSNBC colleague Melissa Harris-Perry, whose uncle, Professor W...

Melissa Harris-Perry’s apology

Melissa Harris-Perry’s apology

Jan. 4: Host Melissa Harris-Perry offers an apology regarding a segment that aired on the December 29 edition of “MHP.”  

Dear Tiana Parker, we are proud of your hair

Dear Tiana Parker, we are proud of your hair

Sept. 6: Melissa Harris-Perry has a message for 7-year-old Tiana Parker and all the other little black girls in our communities who ha...

The political issue literally hitting home for Americans

The political issue literally hitting home for Americans

Aug. 11: Melissa Harris-Perry talks with Peter Goodman, Shanna Smith, Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, and Stephen Lerner about Presi...

The 'Queen of Bounce' on New Orleans culture

The 'Queen of Bounce' on New Orleans culture

Oct. 13: Melissa Harris-Perry welcomes Big Freedia, the "Queen of Bounce,"  to talk about New Orleans culture and the Boun...

When the institutions who are supposed to support you don’t

When the institutions who are supposed to support you don’t

Aug. 3: In some American institutions that were designed to promote intellectual and political freedoms, we find instead th...

Florida leaves FBI to investigate itself in shooting

Florida leaves FBI to investigate itself in shooting

Aug. 1: Melissa Harris-Perry updates the story of the fatal shooting of Boston Bombing-connected, triple-murder suspect Ibr...

Getting the government out of women’s bodies

Getting the government out of women’s bodies

Aug. 11: Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner joins Melissa Harris-Perry about women’s privacy rights and what she’s seeing in h...

Modern politics energizes civil rights movement anew

Modern politics energizes civil rights movement anew

Aug. 23: Melissa Harris-Perry, whose eponymous show airs weekends on MSNBC at 10 a.m. ET, talks with Rachel Maddow about th...

Dear Judge Baugh, rape is rape

Dear Judge Baugh, rape is rape

Aug. 31: Melissa Harris-Perry’s “Open Letter” goes out to Montana District Judge G. Todd Baugh, who handed down a 30-...

A dramatic display of labor’s power

A dramatic display of labor’s power

Aug. 31: Thousands of workers walked out of hundreds of fast food restaurants in nearly 60 cities throughout the U.S., dema...

How are so many people still uninformed about Obamacare?

How are so many people still uninformed about Obamacare?

Sept. 6: More than 4 in 10 Americans surveyed in a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll either weren't sure Obamacare is still the law, o...

Numbers to know as Obamacare rolls out

Numbers to know as Obamacare rolls out

Sept. 6: Melissa Harris-Perry goes through numbers on the Affordable Care Act as people can soon sign up for insurance exchanges under...

How are so many people still uninformed about Obamacare?

How are so many people still uninformed about Obamacare?

Sept. 6: More than 4 in 10 Americans surveyed in a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll either weren't sure Obamacare is still the law, o...

When insurers pull out of Obamacare

When insurers pull out of Obamacare

Sept. 6: Melissa Harris-Perry looks at the significance of Aetna, the third-largest health insurer in the United States, pulling out o...

The week's craziest headlines from the Sunshine State

The week's craziest headlines from the Sunshine State

Sept. 13: Florida's Attorney General asked the Governor to postpone an execution so she can attend a political fundraiser, and the sta...

Gun violence still dominates US headlines

Gun violence still dominates US headlines

Sept. 14: Melissa Harris-Perry runs through recent headlines on gun deaths and gun policy across the United States. “I want to prete...

Adding nuance when teaching on slavery

Adding nuance when teaching on slavery

Sept. 22: Melissa Harris-Perry reflects on an assignment given to her daughter in school where she was asked to pretend she was a slav...

Ted Cruz stages House rebellion

Ted Cruz stages House rebellion

Sept. 27: Chris Hayes talks about a looming government shutdown with the National Review's Robert Costa and MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Per...

Why we love 'Doc McStuffins'

Why we love 'Doc McStuffins'

Sept. 29: Chris Nee, creator of “Doc McStuffins,” joins Melissa Harris-Perry to answer all of MHP’s questions about the smash hi...