Podcast appearances and mentions of melissa harris lacewell

Miya Woolfalk reads from Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought by Melissa Harris-Lacewell, published by Princeton University Press. "When harnessed to do the work of ideology building, the black church can be an instrument in shaping the political worldviews of African Americans."

Join us tonight as we examine the complete insanity that the pathetic Health Care Non-reform has caused amoung the undereducated wingnuts of our fine Land. It has become a veritable Hate Rampage, that threatens to become extreme violence, in a way that Melissa Harris-Lacewell writes: “The relevant comparison here is not the mid-20th century civil rights movement. The better analogy is the mid-19th century period of Reconstruction," adding that "We must now guard against the end of our new Reconstruction and the descent of a vicious new Jim Crow terrorism." Speaking of State terrorism, did Netanyahu just get a well deserved slap down? Whew. Lots of Nuts to talk about tonight!

The JOURNAL assesses Obama's first year as President in the wake of Democrats' defeat in Massachusetts' special election for Senate with Princeton politics and African American studies professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell and journalist Eric Alterman.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The historic nature of the 2008 Presidential race was lost on no one. For the first time, there was an African American nominee for President and for only the second time in our history, there is a woman Vice Presidential nominee. However, the purpose of the roundtable discussion sponsored by the University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture, entitled "Race, Gender, and the 2008 Presidential Election," was to dig deeper into the complex dynamics that make this election unique in our nation's history.The well-attended event, held in the International House's spacious Coulter Lounge, featured a panel of top-notch scholars. The University’s own, Michael Dawson, Professor of Political Science, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Professor of Political Science and African American studies at Princeton University, David Ayon, Senior Research Associate at the Leavy Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University, and Selma D'Souza, Chair, Asian American Action Fund of Greater Chicago.While the discussion was wide-ranging, the main theme that emerged was that this election season has been characterized by the incredible uncertainty and excitement of having an open seat race on both sides. That is, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans knew at the start of the primary season whom their nominee would be. Harris-Lacewell asserted that this open-endedness allowed citizens to express their real preferences and as a result both sides put forth a field of unusual candidates.

Bill Moyers sits down with Columbia law professor and Nation columnist Patricia Williams and Princeton politics and African American studies professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell about the significance of this milestone and what it means for the future.

Bill Moyers Journal looks at the trade deal in the works between the new leadership in Congress and the Bush Administration, which has the Democrats under fire from America's workers. Bill Moyers gets perspective on the deal from Harper's magazine publisher John R. MacArthur, author of The Selling of "Free Trade": NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy. Also on the program, Princeton's Melissa Harris lacewell on race, politics, and spirituality; and author Bruce Bawer, who left America for Europe to escape fundamentalist bigotry, on what his journey says about America, Europe, and Islamic fundamentalism?