Is she LDS?

[rongo]

I seem to remember her bashing the Church once on air and mentioning that she was raised LDS.

http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/melissa-harris-perry-is-not-leaving-msnbc-quietly/285999

[Buckeye]

30 seconds on google turned up the following:

 

My American story is both the story of enslaved ancestors, sold on the street corner of Richmond, Virginia, on my father’s side, and of a persecuted religious minority in the American West on my mother’s side..

 

I am descended from Mormon ancestors. And I had Mormon ancestors who were imprisoned for consensual bigamy. And, you know, I‘ve always had a lot of anxiety about that because—you know, my sense is if people are adults making a choice to be in complicated marriages, you know, what does the state have to say about that?

http://www.ebony.com/black-listed/news-views/why-melissa-harris-perry-is-americas-smartest-nerd-981#axzz41koFtLf9

 

The religious history of Harris-Perry’s own family has the sweep of an American saga. Her mother, whose Mormon ancestors pushed handcarts across the country to their promised land in Utah, graduated from Brigham Young University in 1964, having spent most of her time there, Harris-Perry says, writing articles about Mormon womanhood. Meanwhile, her father, whose great-great-grandmother was sold as a slave on a street corner in Richmond, Virginia, attended Howard University where he was “converted to Black nationalism” and shared a room with Stokely Carmichael. By the time her mother and father met in Seattle in the early 1970s, each had become a parent and had been divorced. After they had Melissa, they moved their blended family and children—white, black, and mixed-race—to Virginia in the immediate aftermath of the civil rights movement. “In that context you had to be Unitarian Universalist,” she said to knowing laughter…

http://www.mixedracestudies.org/wordpress/?tag=melissa-harris-perry

Edited March 2, 2016 by Buckeye

[Robert F. Smith]

Sounds like a very interesting woman.  Be nice to have her respond to all the hullaballoo here on this board.

[thesometimesaint]

Some of her ancestors were. Don't know if she is though.