# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melissa-harris-perry
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:23:10.074Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melissa-harris-perry"
name: "Melissa Harris-Perry"
slug: "melissa-harris-perry"
description: "Melissa Victoria Harris-Perry, formerly known as Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell, is an American writer, professor, television host, and political commentator with a focus on African-American politics. Harris-Perry hosted the Melissa Harris-Perry weekend news on MSNBC from 2012 to February 27, 2016."
tagline: "American journalist and professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melissa_Harris-Perry_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1973-10-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.956521739130435
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "MHarrisPerry"
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    handle:    "mharrisperry"
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    handle:    "ProfMHarrisPerry"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm4492273"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.melissaharrisperry.org/"
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    title: "میلیسا ہیرس پیری"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump