The MSNBC host and award-winning author visits Elon University in January as part of the 2016 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Beloved Community Celebration, a series of programs that honor the slain civil rights leader.
MLK Commemorative Keynote Address by Melissa Harris-Perry
McCrary Theatre, 6 p.m.
Melissa Harris-Perry is the Presidential Endowed Chair in Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University, where she also served as executive director of the Pro Humanitate Institute and founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South.
Harris-Perry is the host of Melissa Harris-Perry, which broadcasts live on MSNBC on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to noon. She is the author of the the award-winning “Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought,” and “Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America.”
Harris-Perry received her bachelor’s degree in English from Wake Forest University in 1994 and her doctorate in political science from Duke University in 1999. She also studied theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Harris-Perry previously served on the faculty of the University of Chicago, Princeton University and Tulane University.
Admission: $13 or Elon ID. Tickets available starting Wednesday, December 9.