The Georgia Tech Office of Institute Diversity, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, the Georgia Tech African American Student Union, and the Xi Alpha Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. present the 1st Annual Black History Month Distinguished Lecture will feature MSNBC’s Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry.
Melissa V. Harris-Perry is host of MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry,”which airs on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. EST. Harris-Perry is professor of political science at Tulane University, where she is founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South. She is also the author of the well received new book, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America released in 2011 and the award winning text Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought in 2004.
Professor Harris-Perry is a columnist for The Nation magazine where she also writes a monthly column also titled Sister Citizen. She lives in New Orleans with her husband, James Perry and daughter, Parker.
For more information on how to register for the event, visit https://go.rollingout.com/city/atlanta/event/georgia-techs-1st-annual-black-history-month-lecture/.
