{"id":44410,"date":"2015-12-01T22:17:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T22:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44410"},"modified":"2015-12-01T22:19:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T22:19:22","slug":"intersection-episode-10-being-melissa-harris-perry-is-a-full-time-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44410","title":{"rendered":"Intersection Episode 10: Being Melissa Harris-Perry Is a Full-Time Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/124739\/intersection-episode-10-melissa-harris-perry-full-time-job\" target=\"_blank\">Intersection Episode 10: Being Melissa Harris-Perry Is a Full-Time Job<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New Republic<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/authors\/intersection\" target=\"_blank\">Intersection with Jamil Smith<\/a><br \/>\n2015-12-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamilSmith\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jamil Smith<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Editor and Host<\/p>\n<p>Professor, feminist, TV host, activist, mom, rabid hip-hop fan. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/melissa-harris-perry\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Harris-Perry<\/a> works seven days a week balancing all her identities, and she isn\u2019t stopping anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Besides hosting her eponymous MSNBC news show and teaching political science and running an institute at Wake Forest University, she is also on the front lines of an intersectional fight for racial justice and women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>This November, the <a href=\"http:\/\/ajccenter.wfu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Julia Cooper Center<\/a>, a research center directed by Dr. Harris-Perry, partnered with the White House Council on Women and Girls to co-host a major conference on expanding opportunities for women and girls of color. Her center is also part of new <a href=\"http:\/\/ajccenter.wfu.edu\/2015\/11\/24\/the-collaborative-to-advance-equity-through-research\/\" target=\"_blank\">collaborative<\/a> to advance equity for women and girls of color through research&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/124739\/intersection-episode-10-melissa-harris-perry-full-time-job\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intersection Episode 10: Being Melissa Harris-Perry Is a Full-Time Job The New Republic Intersection with Jamil Smith 2015-12-01 Jamil Smith, Senior Editor and Host Professor, feminist, TV host, activist, mom, rabid hip-hop fan. Melissa Harris-Perry works seven days a week balancing all her identities, and she isn\u2019t stopping anytime soon. Besides hosting her eponymous MSNBC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,13743,8,26,20],"tags":[22139,20253,6477,2330],"class_list":["post-44410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-intersection-with-jamil-smith","tag-jamil-smith","tag-melissa-harris-perry","tag-the-new-republic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44412,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44410\/revisions\/44412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}